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Dignāga (5th century AD), was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. (4th century - 5th century - 6th century _ other centuries) Events Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Philosophical logic is the study of the more specifically philosophical aspects of logic. ...


He was born into a Brahmin family in Simhavakta near Kanchi (Kanchipuram), and very little is known of his early years, except that he took as his spiritual preceptor Nagadatta of the Vatsiputriya school. This branch of Buddhist thought defended the view that there exists a kind of real personality independent of the elements or aggregates composing it. A Brahmin (pronounciation is Brahmann )is a member of the Hindu priestly caste. ... Kanchipuram, Kanchi, or Kancheepuram (also sometimes Conjeevaram) is the name of a temple town and the headquarters of Kanchipuram district in Tamil Nadu, India. ... Kanchipuram, Kanchi, or Kancheepuram (also sometimes Conjeevaram) is the name of a temple town and district in Tamil Nadu, Indias southernmost state. ... The Vatsīputrīya sect of Buddhism is an offshoot of the Vibhajyavāda that arose during the reign of Aśoka. ... It has been suggested that Personality psychology be merged into this article or section. ...


Among Dignaga's works there is Hetucakra (The wheel of reason), considered his first work on formal logic, advancing a new form of deductive reasoning. It may be regarded as a bridge between the older doctrine of trairuupia and Dignaga's own later theory of vyaapti which is a concept related to the Western notion of implication. In traditional Aristotelian logic, deductive reasoning is inference in which the conclusion is of lesser or equal generality than the premises, as opposed to inductive reasoning, where the conclusion is of greater generality than the premises. ... In logic, material implication is a binary operator. ...


Other works include The Treatise on the Objects of Cognition, The Treatise on Systems of Cognition, and The Treatise on the Correct Principles of Logic, produced in an effort to establish what were the valid sources of knowledge (see Epistemology). The Gettier problem: Justified true belief? Theory of Knowledge: The Gettier problem The Duality of Knowledge Philosophy of Knowledge Glossary Categories: ‪Knowledge‬ | ‪Epistemology‬ | ‪Philosophical terminology‬ ... The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ...


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Tashi Deleg! The Padma Samye Ling Bulletin: Enlightened Masters: Acharya Dignaga (2830 words)
Dignaga did not question the value of these sources of knowledge and opinions, but he clarified their relationship to one another and delineated their ranges of application.
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Dignaga's "law of extension" requires that one who wishes to convince another of his own conclusion has to state both subject and predicate as well as the reason which connects them, along with suitable examples which illustrate the linkage between the reason and the predicate.
Dignaga's Logic of Invention (3628 words)
Dignaga was not able to entirely free himself from the pressure of the methodological tradition (506).
According to Frauwallner Dignaga combined what was existent in rudiments at his time, Vasubandhu's dialectic, Samkya's epistemology, and elements from the philosophy of language of the grammarians, to errect a big building the whole later school was dependent of (Frauwallner 1959, 83).
Dignaga ended this unsatisfying state by fixing the relation between reason and consequence with the help of his wheel of reason.
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