Did the Buddha ever teach logic?
Upvote:1
In one sense the Buddha advised against using deductive reasoning to gain certainty about what brings an end to suffering. From the kalama sutta :
- "It is proper for you, Kalamas, to doubt, to be uncertain; uncertainty has arisen in you about what is doubtful. Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, 'The monk is our teacher.' Kalamas, when you yourselves know: 'These things are good; these things are not blamable; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness,' enter on and abide in them.
Note that logical deduction requires axioms to deduce conclusions from. Logical reasoning doesn't tell us if the axioms are true and therefore it doesn't tell us if the conclusions are true.
More post
- ๐ Why do some English-language texts refer to the Buddha as "Lord"?
- ๐ Kamma vs. kiriya / kriya
- ๐ If sex is prohibited, how do we survive?
- ๐ Should a Buddhist "have faith"?
- ๐ Has a teacher referred to sleep as a form of 'lazy nirvana'?
- ๐ How similar or different is Tantric Buddhism from Vijnana Bhairava of Kashmir Shaivism?
- ๐ On Suffering and Happiness
- ๐ Social context of Buddhist rituals
- ๐ Pressing palms together in respect for the lotus sutra - a boddhisattva?
- ๐ Consciousness and Name-Form
- ๐ Mindfulness while Studying or Listening to Dhamma Talks
- ๐ Miscarriages & Natural abortions as a result of evil beings?
- ๐ Help me with a paradox
- ๐ What does 'Ignorance' mean in Dependent Co-Arising?
- ๐ Buddhism and terminal illness
- ๐ Is there common ground between the Tao Te Ching and Buddhism?
- ๐ When is it okay to think?
- ๐ Is "the blind men and the elephant" a true Buddhist story?
- ๐ Is optimism and positive attitude counterproductive?
- ๐ Are absences empty / conceptual constructions, according to all Buddhists?
- ๐ Is the self like a rainbow and is it just as real?
- ๐ Food and other cravings, and guarding the senses
- ๐ Responding to Worldly Questions
- ๐ Is the continuous effect of karma also sustained by karma?
- ๐ when one Citta perishes,from where does the next arise?
- ๐ Was Buddha born of a Virgin?
- ๐ A summary explaining those ancient Indian philosophies of those non-Buddhist schools that had debated with Buddhist, especially Nalanda, masters?
- ๐ What does Robert M. Pirsig's "Quality" correspond to in Buddhism?
- ๐ How cognition can be explained in Buddha's Abidhamma?
- ๐ Is anxiety connected to the three unwholesome roots?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever teach that we have a special responsibility to those we have injured?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever teach logic?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever delve on the dangers of one's own spirtual achievements feeding the ego?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever say something proven wrong later?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever mention the Upanishads or the Vedas?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever talk about his family?
- ๐ Do enlighted people cry? Did the Buddha ever cry?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever define what he meant by "self"?
- ๐ What did the Buddha teach about aliens?
- ๐ Did Lord Buddha teach any other meditation technique than the Anapana?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever 'thunder' during a Fire Sermon?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever mention or encounter Jews?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever cure someone?
- ๐ (Why) did the Buddha teach rebirth?
- ๐ Did the Buddha teach the four noble truths to laypeople?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever refute the view of "extreme metaphysical nihilism" e.g. a view that "nothing is real"?
- ๐ Did the historical Buddha explicitly teach and/or endorse Kasiแนa (meditation)?
- ๐ Did the Buddha teach the Mahayana
- ๐ Did the Buddha teach Engaged Buddhism?
- ๐ Did the Buddha teach meditation to lay people?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever mentioned what is the cause for having lovers / marriage?
- ๐ Why did the Buddha teach how to escape Samsara if there is no soul?
- ๐ The Buddha spoke to many individuals. Did the Buddha ever tell an individual who did not believe in rebirth, that they must in order to be liberated?
- ๐ How many types of meditation did the Buddha teach in the Pali Canon?
- ๐ Pali Canon: Did the Buddha ever offer teachings without being asked to?
- ๐ Did Buddha ever deny the existence of God?
- ๐ Why did the buddha teach the mahayana?
- ๐ Did the Buddha ever say excessive meditation is bad?
- ๐ Did the Buddha teach receivers to be ungrateful?
- ๐ Where did the Buddha teach about the "flow of tears"?