IN DEFENSE OF
ARISTOTLE’S LAWS OF THOUGHT
Avi
Sion, Ph. D.
First published, 2008-9.
Abstract
In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought addresses, from a
phenomenological standpoint, numerous modern and Buddhist objections and
misconceptions regarding the basic principles of Aristotelian logic.
Many people seem to be attacking Aristotle’s Laws of Thought
nowadays, some coming from the West and some from the East. It is important to
review and refute such ideas as they arise.
This book is drawn from the author’s larger work Logical and Spiritual Reflections.
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Contents
1. Logicians
have to introspect
2. The primacy
of the laws of thought
3. The
ontological status of the laws
4. Fuzzy logic
5. Misrepresentation
of Aristotle
6. Not on the
geometrical model
7. A poisonous
brew
8. The game of
one-upmanship
9. In Buddhist
discourse
10. Calling what
is not a spade a spade
11. Buddhist
causation theory
12. A formal
logic of change
13. Buddhist
critique of change
14. Different
strata of knowledge
15. Impermanence
16. Buddhist
denial of the soul
17. The status of
sense perceptions
18. The status of
dreams and daydreams
19. The status of
conceptions
20. The laws of
thought in meditation
21. Reason and
spirituality
References
Aristotle
(Greece, 384-322 BCE)
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