Indian Logic Heralds Robert Blanché's Logical Hexagon Presented in Structures Intellectuelles (1966)
In La Logique et son histoire d' Aristote à Russell, published with Armand Colin in 1970, Robert Blanché, the author of Structures intellectuelles ( Vrin, 1966) mentions that Józef Maria Bocheński speaks of a sort of Indian logical triangle to be compared with the square of Aristotle (or square of Apuleius), in other words with the square of opposition. This logical triangle announces the logical hexagon of Blanché. It seems that with this logical triangle, Indian logic proposes a useful approach to the problem raised by the particular propositions of natural language. If Robert Blanché's logical hexagon is something more complete and therefore more powerful as regards the understanding of the relationship between logic and natural language, it may be that on a highly important point, Indian logic is superior to the western logic proceeding from Aristotle.
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