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Demonstration of the
Inference.
JAIN THEORY OF FORMAL LOGIC. the kitchen room as well as in other places and I have invariably observed that where Demonstrathere was smoke there was fire. Having legitimacy of met with not a single exception to the rule, I become convinced of the fact that there is an universal antecedence of fire in respect of smoke. Afterwards I go to a hill for a trip. I see smoke there and I doubt somehow whether or not there is fire in the hill and the moment I observe smoke on it, I recall to my mind the invariable concommitance between fire and smoke of which I had become pretty well convinced before, and I conclude that the hill has fire in it as there is smoke on it. Surely this is a case of inference to the point and and you cannot but admit the legitimacy of the issue in question.
Having thus refuted the Chârvâka hypothesis so far their means of knowledge is
Necsesity of concerned and having demonstrated as well a brief Sur.
vey of the the legitimate possibility of Inference(अनुमान) Ji beyond all shadow of doubt according to the
logic. general acceptation of the logical term in question, it is imperative that we shall, ere we enter on any other topics bearing upon
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