Thank you Eli. All the best, Howard
> On Jun 8, 2024, at 3:00 PM, Franco <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Howard, > Not new, but still very useful is S. Bagchi, Inductive reasoning. It deals > mainly with tarka in Nyaya. > Best wishes, > Eli > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 08.06.2024, at 18:02, Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thank you Madhav for this information, and thank you for bringing to mind >> my first and much appreciated Sanskrit professor, Hartmut Scharfe, whom I >> studied with as an undergraduate at UCLA. >> >> Regarding itaretarāśṛaya, often taken to mean ‘mutual dependence’, can this >> be seen as an indirect or oblique indication of infinite regress, by way of >> an apratiṣṭhāna, foundationless, situation? >> >> Thanks and best wishes! >> Howard >> >>> On Jun 8, 2024, at 11:07 AM, Madhav Deshpande <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Another source for discussions of topics like Anavasthā and Itaretarāśraya >>> may be Hartmut Scharfe's book: "Die Logik im Mahābhaāṣya," Berlin 1961. >>> >>> Madhav M. Deshpande >>> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics >>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA >>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies >>> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India >>> >>> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 6:47 AM Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> Thank you Philipp. Very helpful. >>>> >>>> All the best, >>>> Howard >>>> >>>>> On Jun 8, 2024, at 3:00 AM, Philipp Maas via INDOLOGY >>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear Howard, >>>>> On anavasthā and related terms in various systems of thought, see also >>>>> Oberhammer, G. (1991). Terminologie der frühen indischen Scholastik in >>>>> Indien. Vol. 1. A-I. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der >>>>> Wissenschaften, p. 32f. >>>>> >>>>> Best wishes, >>>>> >>>>> Philipp >>>>> __________________________ >>>>> >>>>> Prof. Dr. Philipp A. Maas >>>>> Professor for Modern Indology >>>>> Institute of Indology and Tibetology >>>>> Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich >>>>> ___________________________ >>>>> >>>>> https://spp1448.academia.edu/PhilippMaas >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Am Di., 4. Juni 2024 um 11:05 Uhr schrieb Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY >>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>>>>> 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] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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