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Dignaga (c 480-540 CE) was an India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
n scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian logic
Indian logic

The development of Indian logic can be said to date back to the anviksiki of Medhatithi Gautama ; the Vyakarana rules of Pa?ini ; the Vaisheshika school's analysis of atomism ; the analysis of inference by Nyaya Sutras , founder of the Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy; and the tetralemma of Nagarjuna ....
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He was born into a Brahmin
Brahmin

Brahmin is the class of educators, law makers, scholars and preachers of Dharma in Hinduism. It is said to occupy the highest position among the varna in Hinduism of Hinduism....
 family in Simhavakta near Kanchi (Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram

Kanchipuram, Kanchi, or Kancheepuram is a city and a municipality in Kanchipuram district in the Indian States and territories of India of Tamil Nadu....
), and very little is known of his early years, except that he took as his spiritual preceptor Nagadatta of the Vatsiputriya
Vatsiputriya

The Vatsiputriya sect of Buddhism is an offshoot of the Vibhajyavada that arose during the reign of Asoka. It was later referred to as "sammitiya"....
 school. This branch of Buddhist thought defended the view that there exists a kind of real personality independent of the elements or aggregates composing it.

Among Dignaga's works there is Hetucakra (The wheel of reason), considered his first work on formal logic, advancing a new form of deductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning

Deductive reasoning, sometimes called deductive logic, is reasoning which constructs or evaluates deductive Argument s.In logic, an argument is said to be deductive when the truth of the conclusion is purported to follow necessarily or be a logical consequence of the premises and its corresponding conditional is a necessary truth....
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Dignaga (c 480-540 CE) was an India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
n scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian logic
Indian logic

The development of Indian logic can be said to date back to the anviksiki of Medhatithi Gautama ; the Vyakarana rules of Pa?ini ; the Vaisheshika school's analysis of atomism ; the analysis of inference by Nyaya Sutras , founder of the Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy; and the tetralemma of Nagarjuna ....
.

He was born into a Brahmin
Brahmin

Brahmin is the class of educators, law makers, scholars and preachers of Dharma in Hinduism. It is said to occupy the highest position among the varna in Hinduism of Hinduism....
 family in Simhavakta near Kanchi (Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram

Kanchipuram, Kanchi, or Kancheepuram is a city and a municipality in Kanchipuram district in the Indian States and territories of India of Tamil Nadu....
), and very little is known of his early years, except that he took as his spiritual preceptor Nagadatta of the Vatsiputriya
Vatsiputriya

The Vatsiputriya sect of Buddhism is an offshoot of the Vibhajyavada that arose during the reign of Asoka. It was later referred to as "sammitiya"....
 school. This branch of Buddhist thought defended the view that there exists a kind of real personality independent of the elements or aggregates composing it.

Among Dignaga's works there is Hetucakra (The wheel of reason), considered his first work on formal logic, advancing a new form of deductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning

Deductive reasoning, sometimes called deductive logic, is reasoning which constructs or evaluates deductive Argument s.In logic, an argument is said to be deductive when the truth of the conclusion is purported to follow necessarily or be a logical consequence of the premises and its corresponding conditional is a necessary truth....
. It may be regarded as a bridge between the older doctrine of trairupya and Dignaga's own later theory of vyapti which is a concept related to the Western notion of implication
Implication

Implication may refer to:In logic:* Logical implication, in mathematical logic* Material conditional, in philosophical logicIn linguistics:...
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Other works include The Treatise on the Objects of Cognition (Alambana-parik?a), The Treatise on Systems of Cognition (Prama?a-samuccaya
Prama?a-samuccaya

The Prama?a-samuccaya is a work by Dignaga, the early medieval Indian Buddhist logician and epistemologist, which may be seen as the definitive statement of his epistemological work....
), and The Treatise on the Correct Principles of Logic (*Nyaya-mukha), produced in an effort to establish what were the valid sources of knowledge
Knowledge

Knowledge is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation....
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See also

  • Epistemology
    Epistemology

    Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge. It addresses the questions:...


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