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 44 (of the Paksata-prakarana on Tattvacintama-nididhiti)
TEXT-44: atha siddhyuttaranumitau sisadhayisa hetur astu. na caivam manyadis thaliyadaham praty uttejakasya hetutvapattir uttejakanam ananugatatvat tavad abhavavisistamanyadyabhavasya canugatatvad iti ced. TRANSLATION: Some logician says that with reference to inferential cognition after a cognition of probandum, let a desire to establish be the cause. It is not the same case (as
qualified absence is a cause), with reference to burning in the case of association of gem etc., a stimulating factor (uttejaka) will become the cause (hetu), because all the stimulating factors cannot form one class and because the absence of gem etc. qualified by all the absences does not have any common factor. NOTES: The stimulating factor (uttejaka) is the cause. But all the stimulating factors are not the cause. One particular stimulating factor is the cause of particular object.