Logic & Philosophy of Science
Navya-Nyaya technical logical language
c. 13th-14th c. CEGangesha UpadhyayaTattvacintamaniPan-Indian / unspecified
1201
A highly precise technical vocabulary for expressing relations and quantification, approaching a formal logical language.
- Dated
- 1201–1400
- As scholars put it
- c. 13th-14th c. CE
- Originator
- Gangesha Upadhyaya
- Source text
- Tattvacintamani
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Logic & Philosophy of Science
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Comparable rigour to later symbolic logic.
Fair to say
Expressed in structured Sanskrit prose, not symbols.
Path to modern innovation
Of interest to logicians and analytic philosophers.
Transmission
Independent development.
References
- 1Matilal
- 2J. Ganeri, Indian Logic
Further reading
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