[INDOLOGY] nyaya and regress

[Madhav Deshpande]

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 <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thank you Philipp. Very helpful.
>
> All the best,
> Howard
>
> On Jun 8, 2024, at 3:00 AM, Philipp Maas via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> 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
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> Institute of Indology and Tibetology
> Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
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>
> Am Di., 4. Juni 2024 um 11:05 Uhr schrieb Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info>:
>
>> 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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