By Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls

The paintings includes biographical notes at the highbrow stalwarts and an exam of a few theories and strategies utilized by way of thee adepts within the new kind and approach to logical argumentation. It specializes in vyapti-panacaka of gangesa, on mathuranatha's statement on it, and on extracts from didhiti of Raghunath.

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10 The meaning of the parentheses in this and similar quotations will be explained later. , 68 as "vyäpyasya paksa-vrttitva-dhih" Some Naiyâyikas interpret GangesVs definition differently, making the word 'visista? modify ljnänaf instead of ipaksa-dharmatä\ So Annambhatta, TJS,, 35. The supercommentator Nîlakantha gives the reason: the normal interpretation will not fit a certain type of false inference, the vyabhicäri-hetu type, where the hetu (middle term) does not actually occur in the pak$a.

21 He adds that its importance is owing to its proximity to the result. In Sanskrit: (1) Parvato vahnimän. (2) dhümät. (3) yatra dhümas tatra vahnir yathâ mahänasadau. (4) Tathä câyam. ($) Tasmäi tathä. ^Faddegon (p. " The same is noted by Radhakrishnan (II, p. 90). 22 34 NAVYA-NYÄYA LOGIC [§ 7 Inferring for oneself consists of the three-stage process we have described, namely, knowledge of pervasion, operative knowledge, and knowledge of inference. One may conceive of this three-stage process as a nonassertive syllogism.

Dinakarïya, p. 72, lines 7-8) ; (ii) Rüpahäni, contradiction by nature, an example of which is furnished by the visesäh; since these are defined as ultimate differences, they can have no common generic character; (iii) tulyatva, equality, whereby ghatatva and kalasatva cannot both be generic characters; both mean pot-ness. 50 Cf. P. Cale, which states (41) that jäti and upädhi are two varieties of sämänya. , p. 20, line 12. , this-house-ness) as well, but Mathura seems to feel that this usage is unnatural; cf.

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