The nyāya and Russell on empty terms

Philosophy East and West 34 (2):131-146 (1984)
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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the navya-Nyaya school of indian philosophy determines the truth or falsity of a sentence which contains an empty term, And to point out some similarities and differences between its method of analysis and truth-Value determinations of such sentences and that of bertrand russell

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