Which of the following are true regarding the classical Indian school of logic?

1.It is deductive

2.It is inductive

3.It is formal

4.It is material

5.It always leads from the universal to the particular only

A1, 2, 3 & 4 only ✓ Correct

B2 & 3 only

C1 & 4 only

D1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

Correct answer: (A) 1, 2, 3 & 4 only

Explanation

The classical Indian school of logic is at once deductive and inductive, and both formal and material.

Its inference combines a universal concomitance with an observed instance, so it is deductive and inductive together.

It attends to the form of reasoning yet insists on the truth of the content, so it is formal and material.

Thus Statements 1, 2, 3 and 4 all hold of it.

Statement 5, that it moves only from universal to particular, is false, since it also rises from particulars.

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