TY - BOOK AU - Ganeri, Jonardon TI - Philosophy in classical India: the proper work of reason SN - 9788120833371 U1 - 181.4 PY - 2009/// CY - Delhi PB - MBP KW - Rationalism N1 - The motive and method of rational inquiry Early recognition of a 'practice of reason' Rationality in the Rationality and the ends of life Perception Mind, attention and the soul Rationality and extrapolation Rationality and debate , Reason, scripture and testimony Reason's checks and balances Further reading Rationality, emptiness and the objective view Thought and reality Emptiness and the objective view Rationality in Madhyamaka On causation The impossibility of proof A new paradox of motion Self-refutation Further reading The rational basis of metaphysics Order in nature The categorial hierarchy The structure of the world The taxonomy of natural kinds Absence as a type of entity Higher-order absence Navya-Nyaya logic Number Further reading Reduction, exclusion and rational reconstruction How to practise poverty in metaphysics A skeletal ontology Marking and similarity The role of language in conceptual construction The exclusion theory of meaning Sentence meaning Conditions on rational extrapolation Reasoning from specifics Are reason-target relations law-like? The problem of grounding Further reading Rationality, harmony and perspective A rationality of reconciliation The many-sided nature of things Disagreement defused The epistemology of perspective The logic of assertion The mark of a good reason integration and complete knowledge Further reading Reason in equilibrium Reason and the management of doubt The burden of proof Criteria for rational rejection Supposition and pretence A new doxastic ascent Epistemic equilibrium Further reading ER -