A system of Indian logic : the Nyaya theory of inference : analysis, text, translation and interpretation of the anumana section of Karikavali, Muktavali and Dinakari / John Vattanky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vattanky, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nyaya.

Hindu logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nyana is the most rational and logical of all the classical Indian philosophical systems. In the study of Nyana philosophy, Karikavali with its commentary Muktavali, both by Visvanatha Nyayapancanana, with the commentaries Dinakari and Ramarudri, have been of decisive significance for the last few centuries as advanced introductions to this subject. The present work concentrates on inference (anumana) in Karikavali, Muktavali and Dinakari, carefully divided into significant units according to the subject, and translates and interprets them. Its commentary makes use of the primary interpretatio

Contents:

Covers; A System of Indian Logic; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; I. Introduction; II. Analysis of anumānakhanda; III. Anumānakhanda: Text, Translation and Interpretation; 1A. Process of Inferential Knowledge; 1B. Knowledge of the Reason is not the Instrumental Cause; 2. Definition and Form of Consideration; 3A. Provisional Definition of Invariable Concomitance; 3B. Final Definition of Invariable Concomitance; 4. Subjectness; 5. Definition of Fallaciousness and Division of Fallacies; 6. Fallacy of Deviant Reason and its Divisions

7. Fallacy of Opposite Reason8A. Fallacy of Counterthesis; 8B. View of Ratnakosakara and its Refutation; 9. Fallacy of Unestablishedness of Reason; 10. Fallacy of Contradiction; 11. Fallacy of Deviant Reasons (According to Old Naiyāyikas); 12. Fallacy of Opposite Reason (According to Old Naiyāyikas); 13. Fallacy of Unestablishedness of Reason (According to Old Naiyāyikas); 14. Fallacy of Counterthesis (According to Old Naiyāyikas); 15. Fallacy of Contradiction (According to Old Naiyāyikas); IV. Appendix; 16A. Means of Grasping InvariableConcomitance; 16B. Additional Condition (upādhi)

16C. Kinds of Inference16D. Presumption is Included in NegativeInvariable Concomitance; Bibliography; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-84608-5

1-138-86251-7

1-315-02857-3

1-136-84601-8

9781315028576

OCLC:

870591636