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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXXV, No. 2 October 2000
However, the trend of the times, both in India and abroad, seems to have reverted to a form of neo-scholasticism, extolling pure logic (both of the Navya-Nyaya variety and other alternative systems) for its own sake. Gone are the days when A.C. Burnell could say, referring to a famous late-medieval logic-chopper: '[his] match at saying "an infinite deal of nothing" it would be difficult to find'. One also recalls rather wistfully some of the comments on the cultivation of Nyāya contained in Rammohun Roy's letter to Lord Amherst (11 December 1823) and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar's Report on the Sanskrit College, Calcutta (16 December 1850).
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Only a few misprints (mostly minor) mar this excellently produced work. The publishers are to be congratulated on bringing out this volume. The index, too, is very exhaustive and altogether commendable.
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