Immediate Negation
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: At Kyoto, there is something peculiar going on with negations, or so it seems: A is A, and yet A is immediately not A, and therefore A is A. Without a doubt, this looks a lot like a paradoxical inference and yet we find it repeatedly in the writings of the Kyoto School philosophers. This inference, call it SH, has the form of the soku-hi dialectic, developed and put into practice by Nishida Kitarō. The soku-hi dialectic gets its name from the negation employed in the inference above: the soku-hi negation, as I call it. What is this ominous negation, where does it come from, and what’s its use? This paper intends to clarify.
Source: History and Philosophy of Logic
Author: Adrian Kreutz
Institutions: Kyoto University, University of Oxford
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4239650701