Ana Asthana is considered to be one of the 6 conditions mentioned as jaati-baadhaka in the Nyaaya text. Jati baadhakas are the conditions for considering a property to be an universal.
Best Amba Kulkarni Sent from Gmail Mobile On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 1:43 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 >
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