The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Kaut.ilya’s conception of rationality is goal-oriented and instrumental. The interest is in the reasoned way to achieve some goa ...

ology. He claims that if critical inquiry did not have its own procedures then it would “merely be a study of the soul’s progres ...

of the object. Without an awareness of the object, there is no success in one’s activ- ities. But the knower, having grasped the ...

(c) truth-directed debate, victory-directed debate, destructive debate, sophistical rejoinders, tricks, false reasons, defeat si ...

Nya ̄yasu ̄tra1.1.1 makes a further demand on the type of proof procedure admissible in a critical inquiry. It insists that the ...

There is a conflict here between two accounts of the source of rational norms. On the one hand, to proceed rationally is to proc ...

points out that by “actions” here what is meant is righteous and unrighteous conduct, since it is such conduct that is the cause ...

sound, touch, smell, and taste. From their sequence in time and arrangement in space, one infers the presence of an object of on ...

perceiver’s perceptions and objects which are both nearby and far away; it must be a relation capable of obstruction by solid, o ...

nonveridical. One sees the refracted rays of light, but mistakes them to be water; one sees the ball of dust, but fails to deter ...

S’s perception is of object xiff: 4) for some F, S sees xas an F, where S sees xas an Fiff: 1) S’s perception stands in a relati ...

it does not constitute a refutation of the theory. We may simply give up the strange claim that absences can be perceived. Nya ̄ ...

the controller of the outer senses, but all the while entirely directed by the soul. The mind is mechanical. An enduring metapho ...

of actions not performed” is a reference to the karma theory of moral retribu- tion. If the soul and the mind were distinct cons ...

that some perceptions are so intense as to force the mind in their direction, not because it chooses to direct itself towards th ...

1.6 Rationality and Extrapolation The discovery of identities among the contents of one’s perceptions is a core function of reas ...

tasting a single grain). It is not formally valid, but it is a pervasive and powerful species of informal reasoning. We will see ...

the two. The relation does not obtain between the unseen thing and something which merely resembles the seen thing. The rational ...

citation of examples was given at least as much prominence as the citation of reasons. When the Nya ̄ya theory of inference was ...

a helpful and necessary simplification for the sake of initial progress, also restricted the study of other patterns of inferent ...