
2005.09.30 • 02:04 • 0 com
Khyab pa is also translated as "entails". It seems that tibetans have this idea about objects being "filled by reason" in three distinct meanings: entailment, intersection (specifically in the case of inclusion) and validity. But this may not be a simple confusion between a logic operator, a set operator and a "logic situation".
"To be a man is to be mortal" would be something like "mortality pervades man"; vowels belong to alphabets would be "alphabet pervades vowels"; and similarly they could say "'To be a man isto be mortal, Socrates is a man ∴ Socrates is mortal' pervades"1.
In formal tibetan debate, for instance, there are three possible answers to a conclusion:
1. I accept ('dod).
2. The reason is not established (rtags ma grub).
3. There is no pervasion [i.e., connection] (khyab pa ma byung).
The first one is used when the conclusion supports your own thesis. The second one means you don't accept one of the premisses, and the third one means there is no logical nexus between the propositions.
The word is also used in more religious contexts, as in "basic intelligence (rig pa)2 pervades the deluded mind (sems)3" or "buddha-nature pervades sentient beings". So it seems buddhism also has a clear connection between validity and goodness — and maybe we could extend that to the concept of infinity: "boundless light pervades emptyness".
"To be a man is to be mortal" would be something like "mortality pervades man"; vowels belong to alphabets would be "alphabet pervades vowels"; and similarly they could say "'To be a man isto be mortal, Socrates is a man ∴ Socrates is mortal' pervades"1.
In formal tibetan debate, for instance, there are three possible answers to a conclusion:
1. I accept ('dod).
2. The reason is not established (rtags ma grub).
3. There is no pervasion [i.e., connection] (khyab pa ma byung).
The first one is used when the conclusion supports your own thesis. The second one means you don't accept one of the premisses, and the third one means there is no logical nexus between the propositions.
The word is also used in more religious contexts, as in "basic intelligence (rig pa)2 pervades the deluded mind (sems)3" or "buddha-nature pervades sentient beings". So it seems buddhism also has a clear connection between validity and goodness — and maybe we could extend that to the concept of infinity: "boundless light pervades emptyness".
Shares tags with: Infinity and Validity (ethics as transcendental);
1. ^ I'm not sure if they need it to have true premisses, since validity doesn't, but when they are talking about pervasion, they mean that the nexus between the conclusion and the premisses is ok
2. ^ non-dual mind, intrinsic awareness, "logic", "philosophy", etc...
3. ^ conceptual mind, everyday mind, etc.

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