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Awesome book on logic, must read!
Awesome little book, recommend prior to reading this just to plot out from online Aristotle's Square of Opposites and Dignaga's Wheel, on two separate sheets of paper, and don't drawl on them, take notes separately on another sheet of paper. It will be very slow progress, due to the intense technical nature of everything, I didn't have a background in First Order Logic before starting this other than the two Squares above mentioned, and only fleeting, but grasped it rather fast after learning the technical details of the various systems he jumps to. If you don't take my advise, this book will come off as a impossible unimformative nightmare, but if you do, ever slowly, you'll grasp what he is saying and will benefit from it. This is a companion study, more of logic derived from Buddhism than of Buddhism per say, so if you are on a spiritual quest, this isn't a good starter book for you. It is a study of hardcore mathematical dialectics. Not the least bit mystical or spiritual, that Buddhist statue with the snake is a bit misleading, a cover full of equations would of been the better fit as a indicator for what is within. Yes, the Wikipedia page for Dignaga's square is quite wrong, it does have a lot of parallels to Aristotle's Square of Opposites, the silly professor disputing this stuff needs to read this book and apologize to everyone for get to it all wrong. Very well written, though you sorta gotta know the subject matter prior to learning about the subject matter. Be prepared to track down a few books he mentions in the text, and treat this as a companion to them. Very good and fulfilling book once you grasp it. Terrible if you are just walking in with a lazy, mystical attitude, as it is very hard work, and will take time and sweat, lot s of notes. Helped me grasp the limitations between the two systems, eat and west, something that has been eating away at me for some time.
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