The Indian Schema Analogy Principles

Paris, Jeff and Vencovská, Alena (2016) The Indian Schema Analogy Principles. [MIMS Preprint]

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Abstract

We investigate the status within Unary Pure Inductive Logic of a family of analogy principles suggested by the Hindu Syllogism from Gotama's Nyāya-Sūtra showing that they all follow from the symmetry principle of Atom Exchangeability.

Item Type: MIMS Preprint
Uncontrolled Keywords: Hindu Syllogism, Nyāya-Sūtra, Analogy, Pure Inductive Logic, Logical Probability, Rationality, Uncertain Reasoning.
Subjects: MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 01 History and biography
MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 03 Mathematical logic and foundations
Depositing User: Dr Alena Vencovska
Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2016
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2017 14:13
URI: https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/2436

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