[INDOLOGY] nyaya and regress

[Howard Resnick]

Thank you Eli.

All the best,
Howard

> On Jun 8, 2024, at 3:00 PM, Franco <franco at uni-leipzig.de> 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 <indology at list.indology.info> 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 <mmdesh at umich.edu> 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 <indology at list.indology.info <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>>> __________________________
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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 <indology at list.indology.info <mailto: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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