Definition and Induction

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824816582
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Book Synopsis Definition and Induction by : Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti

Download or read book Definition and Induction written by Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definition is an important scientific and philosophical method. In all kinds of scientific and philosophical inquiries definition is provided to make clear the characteristics of the things under investigation. Definition in this sense, sometimes called real definition, should state the essence of the thing defined, according to Aristotle. In another (currently popular) sense, sometimes called nominal definition, definition explicates the meaning of a term already in use in an ordinary language or the scientific discourse or specifies the meaning of a new term introduced in an ordinary language of the scientific discourse. Definition combines the purposes of both real and nominal definition and is promoted by the Nyaya philosophers of India. Another important method of science and philosophy is induction. In a narrow sense induction is a method of generalization to all cases from the observation of particular cases. In a broad sense induction is a method for reasoning from some observed fact to a different fact not involved in the former. We understand induction in the broad sense though more often we shall actually be concerned with induction in the narrow sense. How can our limited experience of nature provide the rational basis for making knowlege claims about unobserved phenomena?

Materials for the Study of Navya-Nyaya Logic

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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120803841
Total Pages : 181 pages
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Book Synopsis Materials for the Study of Navya-Nyaya Logic by : Daniel H.H. Ingalls

Download or read book Materials for the Study of Navya-Nyaya Logic written by Daniel H.H. Ingalls and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorship of the great sanskrit language epic poem of India, the Mahabharat, is attributed to the sage krsna Dvaipayana Vyasa. This study focuseson the depictionof vyasa in the Mahabharata, where he is an important character in the tale he is credited, with composing. The interpretation of vyasa is enriched by the different perspectives provided by other literature, including dramas, Jataka tales, Arthasastra, and Puranas.

India's Past

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Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis India's Past by : Arthur Anthony Macdonell

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Jaina Epistemology in Historical and Comparative Perspective

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Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515078436
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Book Synopsis Jaina Epistemology in Historical and Comparative Perspective by : Piotr Balcerowicz

Download or read book Jaina Epistemology in Historical and Comparative Perspective written by Piotr Balcerowicz and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nyayavatara, erroneously ascribed by tradition to Siddhasena Divakara, was either the first or one of the first serious Jaina treatises on epistemology. Its author enters polemics with other - mostly Buddhist - epistemological schools and endeavours to establish a Jaina epistemological tradition of its own. Despite its importance, the work is rather secondary in the sense that it relies, for the most part, on the Buddhist logical legacy. The first extant commentary is the Nyayavatara-vivrti of Siddharsigani. Its significance is often underestimated, for its author was responsible for the subsequent development of Jaina epistemological thought to a much larger degree than it has so far been recognised. He refers to major philosophical schools of his times, e.g. to Sautrantika, Yogacara, Sunya-vada, Samkhya, Mimamsa, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Advaita-vedanta, the materialists, etc. The gloss (Tippana) of Devabhadra is in addition a useful source of quotations. (Franz Steiner 2001)

Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791440582
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Book Synopsis Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument by : David Peter Lawrence

Download or read book Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument written by David Peter Lawrence and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-04-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comparative philosophical study of the thought of the two principle theorists of monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, and also formulates a conception of the nature of philosophy as a means of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

Seven Works of Vasubandhu, the Buddhist Psychological Doctor

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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120802032
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book Seven Works of Vasubandhu, the Buddhist Psychological Doctor written by Vasubandhu and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes the Vada-Vidhi, a work on logic; the Pancaskandhakaprakarana, which deals with the 'aggregates' making up 'personality', the karmasiddhiprakarana, which attacks many features of earlier Buddhist psychology, the Vimsatika and Trimsika, which take Buddhist psychology into hitherto unexplored areas; the Madhyanta-vibhagabhasya, books of Mahayana realization: and the Tri-svabhav-nirdesa, which shows a way for ridding consciousness of ensnaring mental constructions.

Against a Hindu God

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231142226
Total Pages : 421 pages
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Book Synopsis Against a Hindu God by : Parimal G. Patil

Download or read book Against a Hindu God written by Parimal G. Patil and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-22 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God have been crucial to Euro-American and South Asian philosophers for over a millennium. Critical to the history of philosophy in India, were the centuries-long arguments between Buddhist and Hindu philosophers about the existence of a God-like being called Isvara and the religious epistemology used to support them. By focusing on the work of Ratnakirti, one of the last great Buddhist philosophers of India, and his arguments against his Hindu opponents, Parimal G. Patil illuminates South Asian intellectual practices and the nature of philosophy during the final phase of Buddhism in India. Based at the famous university of Vikramasila, Ratnakirti brought the full range of Buddhist philosophical resources to bear on his critique of his Hindu opponents' cosmological/design argument. At stake in his critique was nothing less than the nature of inferential reasoning, the metaphysics of epistemology, and the relevance of philosophy to the practice of religion. In developing a proper comparative approach to the philosophy of religion, Patil transcends the disciplinary boundaries of religious studies, philosophy, and South Asian studies and applies the remarkable work of philosophers like Ratnakirti to contemporary issues in philosophy and religion.

Publications

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Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

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Total Pages : 854 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has appendices.

The Vaiśesika Philosophy According to the Daśapadārtha-Sāstra

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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Philosophy in Classical India

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134551649
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Book Synopsis Philosophy in Classical India by : Jonardon Ganeri

Download or read book Philosophy in Classical India written by Jonardon Ganeri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original work focuses on the rational principles of Indian philosophical theory, rather than the mysticism more usually associated with it. Ganeri explores the philosophical projects of a number of major Indian philosophers and looks into the methods of rational inquiry deployed within these projects. In so doing, he illuminates a network of mutual reference, criticism, influence and response, in which reason is used to call itself into question. This fresh perspective on classical Indian thought unravels new philosophical paradigms, and points towards new applications for the concept of reason.

Pāṇini

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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120814943
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Book Synopsis Pāṇini by : George Cardona

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A History of Indian Logic: Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Schools

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Publisher : Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Indian Logic: Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Schools by : Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana

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Catalogue ...

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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Book Synopsis Catalogue ... by : Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Library

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Catalogue of the Library of the University of London

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Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the University of London by : University of London. Library

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Indian Philosophy of Language

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401132348
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Book Synopsis Indian Philosophy of Language by : Mark Siderits

Download or read book Indian Philosophy of Language written by Mark Siderits and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition? As recently as twenty or thirty years ago this question simply would not have arisen. If a practitioner of analytic philosophy of language of that time had any view of Indian philosophy at all, it was most likely to be the stereotyped picture of a gaggle of navel gazing mystics making vaguely Bradley-esque pronouncements on the oneness of the one that was one once. Much work has been done in the intervening years to overthrow that stereotype. Thanks to the efforts of such scholars as J. N. Mohanty, B. K. Matilal, and Karl Potter, philoso phers working in the analytic tradition have begun to discover something of the range and the rigor of classical Indian work in epistemolgy and metaphysics. Thus for instance, at least some recent discussions of personal identity reflect an awareness that the Indian Buddhist tradition might prove an important source of insights into the ramifications of a reductionist approach to personal identity. In philosophy of language, though, things have not improved all that much. While the old stereotype may no longer prevail among its practitioners, I suspect that they would not view classical Indian philoso phy as an important source of insights into issues in their field. Nor are they to be faulted for this.

Jātarūpa's commentary on the Amarakoṣa: Introduction

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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120816886
Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book Jātarūpa's commentary on the Amarakoṣa: Introduction written by Mahes Raj Pant and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with text of the commentary on Amarakośa, classical verse thesaurus of Sanskrit synonyms and homonyms.