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Nyāya is the philosophy of logic. It discusses classification of world knowledge, methodology of systematic and syllogistic reasoning and inferencing. In addition, vādas, the variety of argumentation style also have been discussed. The idea of identifying reason fallacies (hetvābhāsa) from the proposed arguments in order to qualify the argument to be defective is very promising. These age old traditions of Nyāya finds interesting applications in modern discipline, especially in artificial intelligence. In this paper, we have attempted to throw light on key applications to which Nyāya philosophical traditions could be applied. The main theme of discussion focuses on five intelligent system disciplines: requirements engineering, military robotics, web search, e-learning and bibliometrics.
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Mahalakshmi, G.S. (2016). Application of Nyāya to Intelligent Systems. In: Bilimoria, P., Hemmingsen, M. (eds) Comparative Philosophy and J.L. Shaw. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17873-8_15
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