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 45 (of the Paksata-prakarana on Tattvacintama-nididhiti)
TEXT-45: ihapi darsito 'nanugamah sisadhayisayah. TRANSLATION: Here, also i also it has already been shown that all the desires to establish cannot form one class. NOTES: In the case of an inferential cognition after a cognition of probandum (siddhyuttaranumitau, text-44), all the desires to establish are not a cause of inferenial cognition but one particular desire to establish inferential cognition. establish can be a cause of particular