Logic in Religious Discourse / / Andrew Schumann.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Schumann, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
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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.).

Table of 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