Comparative Study of Indian Science

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: C S Mallinath

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Recollection. Besides, whereas Pratyaksha or Perception gives us the Knowledge of a particular object, Pratyabhijna or. Conception consists in establishing a Samjna-Samjni-Sambandha' i.e, in noming and classifying it
Lastly, the Vaiseshika school regards Pratyabhijna or Upamana as a mode of Anumana on the ground that it is a mediate process. The Jainas and the Nyaya · philosophers reject this theory, “Upamana consists in the discovery of Similarity and is thus different from Anumana. (2. 1. 46_Nyaya-Sutras)."
9. Uha. Pratyabhijana consists in conception and gives us general ideas and the ideas of essence. The next process in Ideation and ideal development would be to connect one concept with another and thus to arrive at Judgments or propositions of general application. This process is called Uha or Tarka in the Jaina philosophy and is obviously akin to Induction of the western logic. "Tarka, otherwise called Uha consists in a knowledge of the form, *This being, this is . etc., expressing the relationship between the Proven and the Mark, of eternal application and due to cognition and non