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 48 (of the Paksata-prakarana on Tattvacintama-nididhiti)
TEXT-48: api ca siddhau satyam vinapi sisadhayisam samanyasamagrito 'numitis amanyotpattiprasangat. 1 VARIANT: 1. Tattvacintamani-didhiti-prakasa reads -prasangah for prasangat. TRANSLATION: Moreover, when there is already the cognition of probandum, even without the desire to establish, there will be the contingency of arising of inferential cognition in general from the general causal factors. NOTES: When there is is a cogniton of probandum and there is inferential cognition does not arise. no desire to establish, an In this case, cause, if the general causal factors are considered as the the general inferential cognition arises. But Raghunatha states that this is contingency.