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Author Chakrabarti, Kisor Kumar

Title Classical Indian philosophy of induction : the Nyāya viewpoint / Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages)
Contents The problem of induction : East and West -- The later Nyāya solution -- The method of generalization : Vyāptigrahopāyah -- Counterfactual reasoning : Tarka -- Universal-based extraordinary perception : Sāmānyalakșan̦apratyakșa -- Earlier views of adjuncts : Upādhivādah -- The accepted view of adjuncts : Upādhivādasiddhāntah -- Classification of adjuncts : Upādhivibhāgah -- Sriharsa's Khan̦danakhan̦dakhādyam on pervasion -- Selected passages from Prabhacandra's Prameyakamalamārtan̦da on critique of pervasion and inference -- Selections from Dharmakirti's Nyāyabindu on non-perception as a probans
Summary The work gives a survey of major contemporary, western and Indian views on the problem of induction and offers a solution to the classical problem of induction and the Grue paradox following the Nyaya perspective. The main focus is on Gangesa, the founder of Navya Nyaya, but other views including those of Buddhists, Jains, Vedantins, Carvaka, Hume, Russell, Reichenbach, Carnap, Popper, Goodman, and Quine are also discussed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Selections in Romanized Sanskrit with English translations
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Subject Induction (Logic) -- India -- History
Nyaya.
PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
Induction (Logic)
Nyaya
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gaṅgeśa, active 13th century. Tattvacintāmaṇi. Selections. English
LC no. 2020739957
ISBN 9780739147054
0739147056
1282713264
9781282713260
9786612713262
6612713267