The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

as an “example” is adequate. For something to be capable of playing the role of example, it must be generally and uncontroversia ...

ais likeR 1 ba is likeR 2 c Tb ~Tc \Ta \~Ta As an argument, the rejoinder seems to follow the very same pattern as the orig- ina ...

ais likeRb Tb \Ta The response given in the tradition to this problem is to impose further con- straints on the relation of like ...

eternal. And when something like the soul is the example, then the reason, which is taken to be “because of being intangible” in ...

rationality provides norms for the temporal and cross-modal integration of per- ceptual experiences; and the extrapolative model ...

if we have first to establish that the speaker is competent and sincere, then it seems that our grounds for believing are infere ...

with, any doctrinal base (NS 1.2.1). A reason property which proves a thesis contradictory to a doctrinal base is a mere bogus r ...

reason as the rational integrator of mental contents (perceptual and inferential). Integrative reason strikes a balance between ...

is not itself an established fact: it is neither a shared doctrine nor an indisputable observation. For one needs to know whethe ...

Rationality, philosophical method (1.1–3) Arindam Chakrabarti, “Rationality in Indian Philosophy,” in Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bont ...

Notes 1 Manusam.hita ̄2.11. 2 J. W. McCrindle, Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian: Being a Trans- lation of th ...

23 Joerg Tuske, “Being in Two Minds: The Divided Mind in the Nya ̄yasu ̄tra,”Asian Philosophy9.3 (1999): 229–38. The “weak” divi ...

39 Nya ̄yabha ̄s.ya285, 4–8 [below 5.1.3]. 40 B. K. Matilal, The Character of Logic in India(Albany: State University of New Yor ...

CHAPTER 21 Restoring “Hindu Theology” as a Category in Indian Intellectual Discourse Francis Clooney, SJ Setting the Framework T ...

theology,” it is helpful first of all to back up and recall some aspects of the religious and cultural situation in the West, wh ...

so often been deeply intertwined with the most rigorous reasoning; even a richer sense of philosophy seems inadequate to the spi ...

we do so, we can more accurately understand which strands of Indian thought are most fruitfully aligned with which strands of We ...

us in reconsidering, now in a broader perspective, theology in the West and in the Christian traditions. Other examples too can ...

words such as “intelligent,” “spiritual,” “person” – is a legitimate starting point in the project of identifying “theology.”^14 ...

the argument with great vigor. There was significant support for this kind of rea- soning about God’s existence, but the Nya ̄ya ...