Logical Thought in India - LUW, March 22, 2023 4pm CET

[jean-yves beziau]

The next session of the Logica Universalis Webinar (LUW) will be Wednesday March 22, 2023 at 4pm CET

Presentation of the book

Handbook of Logical Thought in India

https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-81-322-1812-8

 by Sundar Sarukkai

Talk by Nirmal Selvamony 

"Logic in tolkāppiyam"  (chapter of the book)

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-81-322-1812-8_6-2

Abstract: Tolkāppiyam shows us that logic had an important place in the primal society (known as tiṇai). Such primal cultural practices as “tarukkam,” “vākai,” analogical reasoning, the use of the criteria of knowledge (“aḷavai”) in premarital life situations and in oral texts (such as mutumoḻi and kāṇṭikai), and also the primal social institution, namely, the assembly (avai) where public debates were held, were all part of the philosophical tradition of this society. Such philosophy embraced logic, which had rhetorical as well as epistemic functions. If rhetorical logic was persuasive (as in tarukkam) and contestatory (as in vākai in combat and in the assembly), epistemic logic (aḷavai) was validative. In fact, early Tamil logic was a complex discipline not easily distinguishable from philosophy (especially, epistemology and ethics) and rhetoric.

Chair by Raja Natarajan 

Editorial Board Logica Universalis

Everybody is welcome to attend, register here:

https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/updates/23910922

Jean-Yves Beziau

Organizer of LUW and President of LUA

http://www.logica-universalis.org/LUAD