The Pragma-Dialectics of Dispassionate Discourse

Early Nyāya Argumentation Theory

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ID3250648
AuthorsMalcolm Keating (0000-0001-8121-4016, Yale-NUS College, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue10
Pages875
Publication date2021-10-14
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12100875
OpenAlexW3205568257
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

Analytic philosophers have, since the pioneering work of B.K. Matilal, emphasized the contributions of Nyāya philosophers to what contemporary philosophy considers epistemology. More recently, scholarly work demonstrates the relevance of their ideas to argumentation theory, an interdisciplinary area of study drawing on epistemology as well as logic, rhetoric, and linguistics. This paper shows how early Nyāya theorizing about argumentation, from Vātsyāyana to Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, can fruitfully be juxtaposed with the pragma-dialectic approach to argumentation pioneered by Frans van Eemeren. I illustrate the implications of this analysis with a case study from Jayanta Bhaṭṭa's satirical play, Much Ado about Religion (Āgamaḍambara

Argumentation theory · Dialectic · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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