Dear colleagues, I am travelling now and so cannot check this, however, I have a note to the effect that `anavasthaa' is mentioned as a fault in Pata~njali's Mahaabhaa.sya to A 2.1.1. My source is Esther Solomon's Indian Dialectics 1976 p. 29. (I failed to note whether the page is in the first volume or in the second.)
Best wishes, Brendan On 2024-06-04 06:18, Franco via INDOLOGY wrote: > Dear Howard, > The earliest surviving example is probably in the Vigrahavyavartani, where > the possibility of pramanas being proved by other pramanas is rejected > because this would lead to an infinite regress. Most scholars think that > Nagarjuna argues there agains the Nyaya, but I take the opponent to be an > Abhidharmika. > Best wishes, > Eli > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 04.06.2024, at 11:05, Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear Scholars, >> >> Does the nyāya system speak about the problem of an infinite regress of >> proofs? Aristotle famously identifies and then avoids this problem through >> the notion of a self-evident foundation or starting point of knowledge. In >> Western epistemology, this strategy is often called foundationalism. >> >> Is there anything at all similar or analagous in nyāya or other Indian >> schools? The Caitanya-caritāmṛta several times affirms that the Veda is >> ’self-evident’, svataḥ pramāṇa, but the term is not used there as a general >> or secular epistemic strategy. Is the CC simply repeating a well-known >> epistemic principle? >> >> All help will be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks! >> Howard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology -- Brendan S. Gillon email: [email protected] Department of Linguistics McGill University tel.: 001 514 398 4868 1085, Avenue Docteur-Penfield Montreal, Quebec fax.: 001 514 398 7088 H3A 1A7 CANADA webpage: http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group3/bgillo/web/ _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
