Catuṣkoṭi
Sign in to saveCatuṣkoṭi (Sanskrit; Devanagari: चतुष्कोटि, , Sinhalese:චතුස්කෝටිකය) refers to logical argument(s) of a 'suite of four discrete functions' or 'an indivisible quaternity' that has multiple applications and has been important in the Indian logic and the Buddhist logico-epistemological traditions, particularly those of the Madhyamaka school.
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Nasadiya Sukta
- Early Buddhism
- Pyrrhonism
- Nagarjuna
- Catuṣkoṭi post-Nagarjuna
- Modern interpretations
- Exegesis
- Catuṣkoṭi paradox: a simple complex
- Four Extremes
- Alternate Four Limits/Four Extremes
- Lexicon: technical language and terminology
- See also
- Notes
- References
Catuṣkoṭi (Sanskrit; Devanagari: चतुष्कोटि, , Sinhalese:චතුස්කෝටිකය) refers to logical argument(s) of a 'suite of four discrete functions' or 'an indivisible quaternity' that has multiple applications and has been important in the Indian logic and the Buddhist logico-epistemological traditions, particularly those of the Madhyamaka school.
In particular, the catuṣkoṭi is a "four-cornered" system of argumentation that involves the systematic examination of each of the 4 possibilities of a proposition, P: P; that is being. not P; that is not being. P and not P; that is being and that is not being. not (P or not P); that is neither not being nor is that being.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Catuṣkoṭi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.