Dignāga
c. 480 CE – 540 CElived
Kanchipuram, Pallava country
- Buddhism
- Buddhist Logic
Rebuilt Indian logic around what a valid inference actually requires, and held that perception is of bare particulars while all thought is a kind of exclusion.
Known for
- apoha (meaning by exclusion)
- two means of knowledge
- the wheel of reasons
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.