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-11:
inferential cognition on the basis of the probans is
an obstructing factor.
Supportive evidence means a definite cognition of the
state of having a probandum.
TEXT-12: Even after the cognition of probandum collocated on one
mountain, one can infer without any desire to infer on
the another mountain.
TEXT-13: (1) Cognition of one probandum (siddhi)
TEXT-14:
obstructing factor (virodhin) of an
(virodhin) of an
inferential
cognition (anumiti) on one subject (paksa).
(2) Cognition of all the probanda is
the probanda is
an obstructing
factor of an inferential cognition on all the subjects.
(3) Cognition of all the probanda is an obstructing
inferential cognition on one subject.
Difference of probans results into difference of
factor of an
subjectness.
TEXT-15: Cognition of probandum in a form of "mountain
TEXT-16:
possesses fire" (parvato vahniman) is an obstructing
factor for an inferential cognition of fire in the form
of "mountain possesses fire" (parvato vahniman).
Inferential cognition in a form of "fire is on the
mountain鈥� (parvate vahnih) arises even after a
cognition of probandum in a form of "mountain possesses
fire"
(parvato vahniman).
TEXT-17: With reference to an inferential cognition in the form
of "fire is on the mountain" (parvate vahni岣�), a
