Szymon Bogacz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5856762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Szymon Bogacz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Szymon |
| FAMILY NAME | Bogacz |
| SIGNATURE | BOGACZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2371-1131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Buddhist Epistemology and the Liar Paradox
The liar paradox is still an open philosophical problem. Most contemporary answers to the paradox target the logical principles underlying the reasoning from the liar sentence to the paradoxical conclusion that the liar sentence is both true and false. In contrast to these answers, Buddhist epistemology offers resources to devise a distinctively epistemological approach to the liar paradox. In this paper, I mobilise these resources and argue that…
Dharmakīrtian Inference
Dharmakīrti argues that there is no pramāṇa (valid means of cognition or source of knowledge) for a thesis that is a self-contradiction ( svavacanavirodha ). That is, self-contradictions such as ‘everything said is false’ and ‘my mother is barren’ cannot be known to be true or false. The contemporary scholar Tillemans challenges Dharmakīrti by arguing that we can know that self-contradictions are false by means of a formal logical inference. The …
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Dharmakīrtian Inference
Dharmakīrti argues that there is no pramāṇa (valid means of cognition or source of knowledge) for a thesis that is a self-contradiction ( svavacanavirodha ). That is, self-contradictions such as ‘everything said is false’ and ‘my mother is barren’ cannot be known to be true or false. The contemporary scholar Tillemans challenges Dharmakīrti by arguing that we can know that self-contradictions are false by means of a formal logical inference. The …
Buddhist Epistemology and the Liar Paradox
The liar paradox is still an open philosophical problem. Most contemporary answers to the paradox target the logical principles underlying the reasoning from the liar sentence to the paradoxical conclusion that the liar sentence is both true and false. In contrast to these answers, Buddhist epistemology offers resources to devise a distinctively epistemological approach to the liar paradox. In this paper, I mobilise these resources and argue that…
Contradiction (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Buddhism (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work)