Logic in religious discourse / Andrew Schumann (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schumann, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Knocking on Heaven's Door is the oldest human dream that seems unrealized still. Religious discourse does show the road, but it requires a blind faith in return. In this book logicians try to hear Heaven's Call and to analyze religious discourse. As a result, the notion of religious logic as a part of philosophical logic is introduced. Its tasks are (1) to construct consistent logical systems formalizing religious reasoning that at first sight seems inconsistent (this research is fulfilled within the limits of modal logic, paraconsistent logic and many-valued logic), (2) to carry out an illocutionary analysis of religious discourse (this research is fulfilled in frames of illocutionary logics), and (3) to formalize Ancient and Medieval logical theories used in the theology of an appropriate religion (they could be studied within the limits of unconventional logics, such as non-monotonic logics, non-well-founded logics, etc.).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Religious Logic As A Part Of Philosophical Logic

Logic in Indian Thought / Kak, Subhash

On Two Questions of the New Logic of India / Bhattacharya, Kamaleswar

The Use of Four-Cornered Negation and the Denial of the Law of Excluded Middle in Nāgārjuna's Logic / Mohanta, Dilipkumar

A Plea for Epistemic Truth: Jaina Logic from a Many-Valued Perspective / Schang, Fabien

Remarks on Ancient Chinese Logic / Pogonowski, Jerzy

Talmudic Hermeneutics / Sion, Avi

Ockham and Oratio Mentalis / Bottin, Francesco

Analogy in Thomism / Dvořák, Petr

Towards a Logic of Negative Theology / Rojek, Paweł

Reasoning about the Trinity: a Modern Formalization of a Medieval System of Trinitarian Logic / Uckelman, Sara L.

Late Medieval Trinitarian Syllogistics: From the Theological Debates to a Logical Textbook / Pérez-Ilzarbe, Paloma

Ineffability Performance: Critique and Call / Knepper, Timothy

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86838-061-2

3-11-031957-8

OCLC:

851972058