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Philosophy in classical India : the proper work of reason / Jonardon Ganeri

By: Ganeri, Jonardon.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001Description: vi, 207 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415240344.Subject(s): Philosophy, IndicDDC classification: 181.4
Contents:
4. Reduction, exclusion and rational reconstruction. 4.1. How to practise poverty in metaphysics. 4.2. A skeletal ontology. 4.3. Marking and similarity. 4.4. The role of language in conceptual construction. 4.5. The exclusion theory of meaning. 4.6. Sentence meaning. 4.7. Conditions on rational extrapolation. 4.8. Reasoning from specifics. 4.9. Are reason-target relations law-like?. 4.10. The problem of grounding. Further reading. - 5. Rationality, harmony and perspective. 5.1. A rationality of reconciliation. 5.2. The many-sided nature of things. 5.3. Disagreement defused. 5.4. The epistemology of perspective. 5.5. The logic of assertion. 5.6. Assertion and the unassertible. 5.7. The mark of a good reason. 5.8. Integration and complete knowledge. Further reading. - 6. Reason in equilibrium. 6.1. Reason and the management of doubt. 6.2. The burden of proof. 6.3. Criteria for rational rejection. 6.4. Supposition and pretence. 6.5. A new doxastic ascent. 6.6. Epistemic equilibriumFurther reading. - Notes. - Texts. - Bibliography. - Index.
Introduction. - 1. The motive and method of rational inquiry. 1.1. Early recognition of a 'practice of reason'. 1.2. Rationality in the Nyayasutra. 1.3. Rationality and the ends of life. 1.4. Perception. 1.5. Mind, attention and the soul. 1.6. Rationality and extrapolation. 1.7. Rationality and debate. 1.8. Reason, scripture and testimony. 1.9. Reason's checks and balances. Further reading. - 2. Rationality, emptiness and the objective view. 2.1. Thought and reality. 2.2. Emptiness and the objective view. 2.3. Rationality in Madhyamaka. 2.4. On causation. 2.5. The impossibility of proof. 2.6. A new paradox of motion. 2.7. Self-refutation. Further reading. - 3. The rational basis of metaphysics. 3.1. Order in nature. 3.2. The categorial hierarchy. 3.3. The structure of the world. 3.4. The taxonomy of natural kinds. 3.5. Absence as a type of entity. 3.6. Higher-order absence. 3.7. Navya-Nyaya logic. 3.8. Number. Further reading. -
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4. Reduction, exclusion and rational reconstruction. 4.1. How to practise poverty in metaphysics. 4.2. A skeletal ontology. 4.3. Marking and similarity. 4.4. The role of language in conceptual construction. 4.5. The exclusion theory of meaning. 4.6. Sentence meaning. 4.7. Conditions on rational extrapolation. 4.8. Reasoning from specifics. 4.9. Are reason-target relations law-like?. 4.10. The problem of grounding. Further reading. - 5. Rationality, harmony and perspective. 5.1. A rationality of reconciliation. 5.2. The many-sided nature of things. 5.3. Disagreement defused. 5.4. The epistemology of perspective. 5.5. The logic of assertion. 5.6. Assertion and the unassertible. 5.7. The mark of a good reason. 5.8. Integration and complete knowledge. Further reading. - 6. Reason in equilibrium. 6.1. Reason and the management of doubt. 6.2. The burden of proof. 6.3. Criteria for rational rejection. 6.4. Supposition and pretence. 6.5. A new doxastic ascent. 6.6. Epistemic equilibriumFurther reading. - Notes. - Texts. - Bibliography. - Index.

Introduction. - 1. The motive and method of rational inquiry. 1.1. Early recognition of a 'practice of reason'. 1.2. Rationality in the Nyayasutra. 1.3. Rationality and the ends of life. 1.4. Perception. 1.5. Mind, attention and the soul. 1.6. Rationality and extrapolation. 1.7. Rationality and debate. 1.8. Reason, scripture and testimony. 1.9. Reason's checks and balances. Further reading. - 2. Rationality, emptiness and the objective view. 2.1. Thought and reality. 2.2. Emptiness and the objective view. 2.3. Rationality in Madhyamaka. 2.4. On causation. 2.5. The impossibility of proof. 2.6. A new paradox of motion. 2.7. Self-refutation. Further reading. - 3. The rational basis of metaphysics. 3.1. Order in nature. 3.2. The categorial hierarchy. 3.3. The structure of the world. 3.4. The taxonomy of natural kinds. 3.5. Absence as a type of entity. 3.6. Higher-order absence. 3.7. Navya-Nyaya logic. 3.8. Number. Further reading. -