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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TEXT-5c: TEXT-6: 60 Vacaspati Misra I
Misra I
that (1) "the logicians who enjoy
logic want to know already known object by perception
through the inference", and (2) "the logicians do not
infer the elephant on the basis of the crying the
elephant when the elephant is already perceived".
Desire to infer (anumitsa) cannot be a cause of
inference. Confirmatory cognition (paramarsa)
cause of inference.
笔础碍厂础罢膧-厂滨顿顿贬膧狈罢础
is a
Gangesa's definition of pak峁ta; "the locus of the
absence of the supportive evidence accopmpanied with
the absence of the desire to establish, is the subject"
(sisadhayisavirahasahak峁泃as膩dhakapram膩峁嚹乥h膩vo yatra
TEXT-7:
asti sa paksah).
Subjectness cannot be a distinguisher (bhedaka).
