Indian Logic Part 01

Author(s): Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Sanskrit Sanskriti Granthmala

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INDIAN LOGIC
Chapter III : (1) The definition of verbal testimony
(2) Verbal testimony is not a case of inference (3) Verbal testimony is a genuine means of valid
cognition (4) Refutation of the Mimāṁsā thesis that all
cognition is intrinsically valid (5) Defence of theism (6) Refutation of the Mimāṁsā thesis that a
word is an eternal substance ! Chapter IV : (7) Refutation of the Mimāṁsa thesis that Vedas
are an authorless composition ... Chapter V : (8) Refutation of the Buddhist thesis that a ‘uoi
versal' is something imaginary (9) Determination as to whether a word denotes a
'universal', a particular, or both (10) Determination as to wherein lies the meaning
of a sentence - Chapter VI : (11) Refutation of the doctrine of sphoța (accor
ding to which a word is an eternal, incomposite something standing over and above the
concerned constituent letters) (12) Determination as to how a sentence is made
of the concerned constituent words 3) Determination as to how the sentential mea
ning is yielded by the meaning of the concer
ned constituents (14) The science of grammar is competent to enable
one to distinguish between proper and impro
per words. This catalogue deserves careful study so as to see how upjust ..Jayanta is being to himself and his school when he gives out that
their primary concern is to vindicate the validity of Vedic testimony. For hardly few of the issues here enumerated have any direct bearing on this vindication; (that the subject-matter of the first two Chapters – for that matter, also that of the Chapters