Indian logic

Indian logic refers to the exercise of reasoning and the practice of arguments recorded in early texts of India, with treatment intimately connected with questions of ontology, epistemology, dialectics, and the nature of reason and arguments. The field arose independently of the Greek tradition and is generally counted as one the three original traditions in the world, alongside Greek and the Chinese. The development of Indian logic dates back to the Chandahsutra of Pingala and anviksiki of (c. 6th century BCE); the Sanskrit grammar rules of Pāṇini (c. 5th century BCE); the Vaisheshika school's analysis of atomism (c. 6th century BCE to 2nd century BCE); the analysis of inference by Gotama (c. 6th century BC to 2nd century CE), founder of the Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy; and the tetralemma of Nagarjuna (c. 2nd century CE). The Indian tradition continued to develop through early to modern times, in the form of the Navya-Nyāya school of logic.