Debates

[R.W.Perrett at massey.ac.nz]

Domnik wrote:

>Bimal Matilal's inaugural lecture at Oxford, entitled "The logical
>illumination of Indian mysticism" contained quite a lot on the formal
>rules of debate as presented in nyaya literature.  I think this essay
>was reprinted somewhere in one of his later books.
>
This lecture was published by OUP as a separate pamphlet with that title. 
My Indian impression published by OUP India is dated Delhi, 1978;  the
title page of this indicates that the work was first published by the
Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977.  I don't believe this lecture was reprinted
in any of Matilal's later collections.  However there is also some material
on debate and dialectic in his *Perception* (Oxford, 1986).

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