The Navya-Nyaya theory of Paksata (Study)
by Kazuhiko Yamamoto | 1991 | 35,898 words
This essay studies the Navya-Nyaya theory of Paksata within Indian logic by exploring the Paksataprakarana on the Tattvacintamani of Gangesa Upadhyaya and the Didhiti of Raghunata Siromani. The term “paksa� originally meant a subject or proposition but evolved to signify a key logical term, representing the subject of an inference or the locus of i...
Text 9 (of the Paksata-prakarana on Tattvacintama-nididhiti)
TEXT-9: yadi ca tatranumitis tada siddhisattve tatranumiter varanaya tallingakanumiticcha, tadanyamatralingakanumitIcchati-
riktanumiticcha va vacya. TRANSLATION: And if the inferential cognition arises, then in order to rule out the arising of the inferential cognition if the probandum is already known, the desire of inferential cognition on the basis of that particular probans, or the desire of inferential cognition on the basis of a probans other than that particular probans alone, should be accepted (as obstructing factor). NOTES: In case that there is an inferential cognition when there is a cognition of probandum, a desire to infer that probans is a cause. But when there is a desire to infer another probans instead of a desire to infer that probans, the inferential cognition cannot arise. And this desire to infer another probans is an obstructing factor of that inferential cognition.