Paksatā: The Nature of the Inferential Locus : a Psycho-epistemological Investigation of the Inferential ProcessDescription: The topic of Paksata is a unique contribution of Neo-Indian logicians to a psycho-epistemological analysis of the nature of the minor term in inference. Giving a technical twist to the commonly-accepted meaning of the term, Raghunatha Siromani, the greatest Indian logician, has construed this meaning in terms of the definition of what may broadly be called a psychological condition of inference. The simple commonsensical fact that a non-inferentially known fact can be sought to be known even inferentially if it is so desired, is the basis of the definition. Various combinations of inferential desires and non-inferential cognitions resulting in or preventing the relevant inferences are considered in the discussion of the definition to arrive at a perfect fit of these factors in the definition. Many important issues connected with causality which bear upon the subject are also considered in the course of the discussion. |
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Paksatā The Nature of the Inferential Locus | 1 |
Gangesas Criticism of the Traditional | 18 |
Definition of the Nature of the Determinate | 49 |
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absence of fire absence of inferential antecedent absence causal collocation causal conditions causal formula cause of inference characterized co-existent cognition is present cognition of fire collocation of perception concomitant contingency counter-positive counter-proposals Crit definition of Paksatā desire for inference destruction determinate cognition corresponding Dīdhiti disjuncts dissipated doubt effect emergence entity epistemic qualificandum epistemic qualifier existence fallacy fire-concomitant fire-inference followed Gangesa hilltop immediately preceding immediately succeeded infereehood inference occurring inference of fire inferential cognition inferential desire inferential locus inferential mark insertion light as mark limited scope logicians moonstone Numerical cognition Nyāya object obstructive of inference obstructor occupied by fire occurrence origination parāmarśa perceptual cognition preceding inference preceding the inference predicate qualificandumhood qualifierhood Raghunatha says regarded relation determining Sanskrit second inference smoke as mark stimulate the inference supposed take place taken treated universal scope verbal cognition अनुमिति अनुमित्सा अपि इति एव तत्र तु वा सिद्धि सिषाधयिषा