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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which the inferential cognition is produced and which
is in its own locus.
TEXT-29a: It is not correct that every factor of previous
inferential cognition is not contradictory of next
inferential cognition,
TEXT-29b because of the three reasons that (1) there will be
continuous cessation of the individuals, (2) it is
possible to postulate in that way on the basis of not
arising of the result, and (3) another ground is
TEXT-30:
TEXT-31:
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TEXT-33:
cumbersomeness.
The relations of particular soul and the particular
time are those which are different from that which
exists prior to the
to the
inferential cognition.
Causality (k膩ra峁嘺tva) is in the moment which is
immediately prior to the moment in which one gets
inferential cognition, or qualified by the existence of
that type of moment.
Causality will be destroyed as a confirmatory cognition
etc. And the state of being an obstructing factor
(pratibandhakatva) will be destroyed as a contradictory
cognition (badhakatva) etc.
Yajapati's view: Absence of either of the two, such as
the cognition of probandum and a measure of cognition
other than inference, which is qualified by the absence
f desire to establish is the cause.
0 TEXT-34a: Yajnapati's view is not
not
correct, because of the three
