Logic as an explicit analysis of the methods of reasoning received sustained development originally in India before the other civilizations , the chinese and the greek , which are the only civilizations along with India that developed the systems of logic in a clear, detailed and unambigous manner.
So India was the first nation and civilization that studied and emphasized logic as the study of principles and criteria of valid inference and the method of reasoning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Logic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaya
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---Krishna ( Bhagavad Gita )
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