Essay name: The Navya-Nyaya theory of Paksata (Study)
Author:
Kazuhiko Yamamoto
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
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 鈥減aksa鈥� originally meant a subject or proposition but evolved to signify a key logical term, representing the subject of an inference or the locus of inference.
Section 1 - History and Development of the Concept of Paksata
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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(sisadhayisa) does not
me an a desire of a cognition of probandum
(siddhi-iccha). The fourth is about Jayadeva's definition of
paksata.
11 10
And the fifth point deals with some logician's idea
about the qualified absence (visista-abh膩va) not being the
subjectness and considers this idea to be incorrect. 12
10. (TCP (2): 346, 1-4) = (TCA: 182, 4-10).
11.
(TCP (2) 348, 8f.) = (TCA: 184, 2f.).
12. (TCP (2): 350, 6-9) = (TCA: 184, 12ff.).
