Download or read book The Navya-nyāya Doctrine of Negation written by Bimal Krishna Matilal and published by Cambridge Harvard University Press 1968. This book was released on 1968 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navya-nyaya ("New Method") school of logic has exerted a profound influence on Indian philosophy since the twelfth century. In this system, with its hierarchy of abstractions rather than of classes, the doctrine of negation is crucial. Bimal Krishnal Matilal expounds Navya-nyaya theory by systematically translating its arguments into the language of Western logic. He also provides texts and literal translations of two standard works on negation, one each from the orthodox and the radical wings of the school, and a detailed commentary of his own upon them.