Scripture, Logic, Language_ Essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan Successors

Abstract

Series Editor’s Preface by E. Gene Smith ; Acknowledgments and Noteson the Bibliographic Sources ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; SCRIPTURALLY BASED ARGUMENTATION; 1. Dharmakirti, Aryadeva and Dharmapala on Scriptural Authority ; 2. How Much of a Proof is Scripturally Based Inference? ; 3. Pre-Dharmakirti Commentators on the Definition of a Thesis ; Logic; 4. On Pardrthdnumana, Theses and Syllogisms ; 5. On Sapaksa ; 6. Formal and Semantic Aspects of Tibetan Buddhist Debate Logic ; 7. Dharmakirti and Tibetans on Adrsyanupalabdhihetu ; 8. What is the Svadharmin in Buddhist logic? ; 9. Is Buddhist Logic Non-classical or Deviant? ; Philosophy of Language; 10. On the So-called Difficult Point of the Apoha Theory ; 11. What Can One Reasonably Say about Nonexistence? Co-authored by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. ; Bibliography ; Index ;