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The history of Indian logic may be divided into three periods: Old Logic, Buddhist Logic, and New Logic.1 The origins of formal logic in India may go back to the fourth century B.C., but the oldest systematic writing of the major school of Indian logic, the Nyāyasūtra, seems to have been composed at some time between the time of Christ and A.D. 200.2 The dates of important Mahāyāna texts, such as the Prajñāpāramitāsùtra, the Saddharmapuṇḍarikasutra, and the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra, seem to fall between 50 B.C. and A.D. 200. Thus Mahāyāna Buddhism arose at the time when the Old Logic was taking its systematic form. Buddhist Logic was established by Dignàga (A.D. 480–540).3 It is to be noted that the first and the second periods of Indian logic were characterized by intense conflict between Buddhist logicians and orthodox Hindu logicians.
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Tachikawa, M. (1981). Background History and Methodology. In: The Structure of the World in Udayana’s Realism. Studies of Classical India, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7709-9_2
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