Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
ABSTRACT
‘The Duologue of King/Governor Pāyāsi’ (“Long Discourses”) has long been
recognised as a source for the proto-materialism current at the time of the
Buddha. What needs to be stressed is the significance of the text as a pointer
to the development of Logic in India. Perception (observation and experiment
employing the joint method of agreement and difference), which is an accepted
method of experimental enquiry, and reasoning from analogy, which can lead at
best...
