Indian Logic Part 01

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

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INDIAN LOGIC
· pany with the Nyāya fellow-fighter. For the former attributes the
designation 'cognition' not to what results from the operation of a cognitive organ but to this operation itself, whereas according to the latter cognition is a quality produced in the soul concerned as a result of this operation. Again, on the Kumārilite's showing what results from the operation in question is a property called 'cognizedness' belonging to the object concerned. Lastly, it is his understanding that the operation in question is not something obsesvable but posited by way of implication in order to account for this 'cognizedness' which in its turu is something observable. This whole position maintained by the Kumārilite Jayanta seeks to assail. Against the Buddhist, Jayanta had argued thắt the former attributes the designation 'pramāņa’ not to what produces valid cognition but to the resultant valid cognition itself; the Kumārilite now dissociates himself from the Buddhist by pointing out that according to the former too the designation 'pramāņa’ is to be attributed to valid cognition itself but that this valid cognition is not a result but an operation whose own result is 'cognizedness' produced in the object concerned.31 In this connection he elaborates his general theory of 'operation' and applies it to the case of cognition. 32 Thus on his showing in the case of all operation the different members of the concerned causal aggregate act in their respective ways in order to bring about the result concerned, it being further maintained that this operation is something different from the observable acts of the different members of the concerned causal aggregate, is itself not something observable. and is to be inferred from the result concerned. For example, cooking is an operation as a result of which raw rice becomes cooked rice, and in the course of it the causal elements like fuel, cooking-pan, raw rice etc. act in their respective ways; similarly, cognition is an operation as a result of which a hitherto uncognized object becomes a cognized object, and in the course of it. the causal elements like eye, light, object etc. act in their respective ways. And just as the cooking operation is itself not something observable and is to be inferred from the fact that raw