Comparative Study of Indian Science

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

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Hill that it is this and sayik a pre
Dharma.com attendend says "tila also
process of inference actually relate ? This is the question.
The great Buddhist Scholar Dignaga in his PramanaSamchchyaya contends that it is not Fire nor the connection between it and the Hill but it is the Firy Hill that is inferred. Kumarila also in his Slokavartika admits this and says “What is inferred is the Minor Term attended with a particular phenomenon, Dharma." The older school of the orthodox Nyaya thinkers attached two meanings to the Sadhya. "The Proven is of two sorts," says Vatsayana," it is either a phenomenon existing in the Minor Term e.g., the non-eternity of (ie, in) Sound or the Minor Term, attended with the phenomenon eg., Sound (is) noncternal." The first view is held by orthodox NeoNyaya tinkers and the second, as will be apparent, is upheld by the Buddhist and Mimansaka logicians. We may leave out of consideration here, the contention of Udyotakara, according to which the Proven is no other than the Mark or the Middle Term itself. If on an occasion we see Smoke on a Hill-top, our correct conclusion would be that that particular Smoke is attended with Fire.
The Jainas recognise the force of the argument of the Neo-Nyaya logicians that if anything can be inferred from the existence of Smoke, it is certainly Fire and