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Ratnakīrti flourished early in the 11th century A.D. at the University of Vikramaśīlā, a member of the Yogācāra-Vijñānavāda school of late Buddhist philosophy. Thakur characterizes Ratnakīrti’s writing as “more concise and logical though not so poetical”1 as that of his guru, Jñānaśrīmitra, two of whose dicta are focal points of the present work.2
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See Jñānaśrimitranibandhāvali (Buddhist Philosophical Works of Jñānaśrīmitra) (ed. by A. Thakur), Patna 1959, p. 31.
See Y. Kajiyama, ‘Buddhist Solipsism. A free translation of Ratnakīrti’s Saṁtānāntaradūtsana’, Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 13 (1965) 435–420.
H. Ganguli’s citation of a conclusion of Prajñākaragupta. H. Ganguli, Philosophy of Logical Construction, Calcutta 1963, p. 193
As in, e.g., W. V. Quine, Mathematical Logic, New York 1940, or A. Church, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Vol. I, Princeton 1956
This fact has been noted by J. F. Staal in ‘Contraposition in Indian Logic’, in Proceedings of the 1960 International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Stanford 1962, pp. 634–9.
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Senape McDermott, A.C. (1969). Introduction. In: Senape McDermott, A.C. (eds) An Eleventh-Century Buddhist Logic of ‘Exists’. Foundations of Language, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3387-9_1
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