Andrea Lorene Gutierrez kindly pointed out to me that ‘atiprasṅga’, a synonym of anavasthā, is found in Yoga-sūtra 4.21 cittāntara-dṛśye buddhi-buddher atiprasaṅgaḥ smṛti-saṅkaraś ca
Best, Howard > On Jun 6, 2024, at 2:42 AM, Brendan S. Gillon, Prof. via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
