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[Vinod]

Well, one of the six Hindu philosophical school of thought, the Nyaya (science of debate) has laid some rules in order to have  a sound debate, I'm not going to go deep in to this but would like to make a few points based on the Nyaya school of thought.

According to Nyaya there are three types of logic:

Tarka (sequential logic): Tarka is sequential logical understanding, it increases scientific knowledge. When sequential logical understanding changes, then scientific conclusions change. For eg: Pesticides and antibiotics were considered to be very useful in the past, and are now proven to be more harmful. In tarka, the paradigm changes.

Vitarka (irreversible logic): Vitarka means ultimate reasoning, the logic which is straight, open, available to us and available to the cosmos, very directly which makes us to understand the things AS IT IS.  It allows one to find answers, to accept the world to be in a state of fluidity. Vitarka causes the premises of understanding to change and, once one applies it, the solutions seem entirely logical.

Kutarka (wrong logic): Kutarka is logic aimed at disbelief, at finding loopholes through fallacious reasoning.

Hope the moderators know to distinguish between the three & act accordingly. [img]images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]






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