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LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY 9


5. Formal Consequences .......................................................................................................... 447
6. Negation and the Laws of Thought ..................................................................................... 448
7. Pure Experience ................................................................................................................... 450
8. Consistency is Natural ......................................................................................................... 450
9. Status of the Logic of Causation ......................................................................................... 451
10. Zero, One and More ........................................................................................................ 452
11. Psychology of Negation .................................................................................................. 454
12. Negation in Meditation .................................................................................................... 454
10. Jewish Logic: A Brief History and Evaluation .................................................................... 455
1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 455
2. Traditional Claims and Historical Record ........................................................................... 455
3. Comparisons and Assessments ............................................................................................ 457
11. Islamic Logic ....................................................................................................................... 461
1. The Structure of Islamic Law .............................................................................................. 461
2. Islamic Hermeneutics .......................................................................................................... 462
3. Interpreters ........................................................................................................................... 466
12. Logical Aspects of Foucault’s Archeology .......................................................................... 467
1. Slippery ............................................................................................................................... 467
2. Catch Him............................................................................................................................ 468
3. Healing ................................................................................................................................ 470
13. Comments on 3 chapters of Foucault .................................................................................. 473
1. Las Meninas ........................................................................................................................ 473
2. The Prose of the World ....................................................................................................... 473
3. Representing ........................................................................................................................ 475
14. Bolzano’s Semantics Concepts ............................................................................................ 478
1. “Propositions-in-Themselves” ............................................................................................. 478
2. “Ideas-in-Themselves” ........................................................................................................ 479
3. The Issue of Time ................................................................................................................ 480


BUDDHIST ILLOGIC ................................................................................................................... 483
Foreword ......................................................................................................................................... 487
1. The tetralemma ........................................................................................................................ 489
2. Neither real nor unreal ............................................................................................................. 491
3. Nagarjuna’s use of dilemma .................................................................................................... 494
4. The subject-predicate relation ................................................................................................. 496
5. Percepts and concepts .............................................................................................................. 499
6. Motion and rest ........................................................................................................................ 505
7. Causality .................................................................................................................................. 511
8. Co-dependence ........................................................................................................................ 517
9. Karmic law .............................................................................................................................. 522
10. God and creation ................................................................................................................. 524
11. Self or soul........................................................................................................................... 530
12. Self-knowledge .................................................................................................................... 534
Afterword: Not ‘empty logic’, but empty of logic .......................................................................... 537
Appendices ...................................................................................................................................... 539
1. Fallacies in Nagarjuna’s work ............................................................................................. 539
2. Brief glossary of some basic concepts ................................................................................. 540


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