[INDOLOGY] nyaya and regress

[Amba Kulkarni]

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

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On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 1:43 AM, Brendan S. Gillon, Prof. via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> 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 <
> indology at list.indology.info> 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
> >>
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