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Sundar Sarukkai’s New Book Explains Logic for a Digital World

Sundar Sarukkai’s New Book Explains Logic for a Digital World
Philosopher Sundar Sarukkai's new book teaches us how to think logically in a digital world · livemint.com

Sundar Sarukkai has written a book about thinking clearly in the digital world.

It starts by explaining important ideas such as logic, rationality and inference.

Logic helps us use information to reach a conclusion.

The book compares some Western and Indian ways of explaining logic.

Western examples often use numbers and measurements.

Indian Nyaya philosophy uses a practical example involving cooked rice.

You do not need to check every grain of rice.

If a few grains are cooked, you can infer that all the rice is cooked.

This shows that logical thinking does not always depend on mathematics.

Key facts

Author
Sundar Sarukkai
Subject
Logical thinking in a digital world
Core concepts
Rationality, logic and inference
Referenced philosopher
Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935–91)
Indian tradition discussed
The ancient Nyaya school of philosophy
Nyaya example
Checking a few grains of rice to infer whether all the rice is cooked

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