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Logic in Tamil Tradition

Handbook of Logical Thought in India

Abstract

Logic, in Tamil tradition, is inseparably connected with philosophy and rhetoric. It is a reasoning praxis, which includes knowing the truth and communicating it. If the former is the epistemic aspect of logic, the latter is its rhetorical. The rhetorical branch has two main divisions, the monological (tarukkam) and the dialogical (vaakai). Examples are provided from classical literature, folk songs, folk drama, religious polemics, political oration, screen play, dissertation, forum for disputation and debating forum. The purpose of logic is to affirm the normative mode of truth of each type of society. If the truth of the primal society is differentiated continuity, that of the state society is foregone conclusion, and that of the Industrial society is anarchic indeterminacy.

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Selvamony, N. (2019). Logic in Tamil Tradition. In: Sarukkai, S. (eds) Handbook of Logical Thought in India. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1812-8_5-1

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