Possible Ideas of Necessity in Indian Logic.
It is often remarked that Indian logic (IL) has no conception of necessity. But what kind of necessity is absent in this system? Logical necessity is presumably absent: the structure of the logical argument in IL is often given as a reason for this claim. However even a cursory understanding of IL i...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 40; no. 5; pp. 563 - 583 |
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