Indian Philosophy

Author(s): Sukhlal Sanghavi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Classification of Philosophical Systems
Nyāya-Vaiseșika and Sankhya are predominantly an advocate of argumentation or inference and even while recognizing the authority of sagely cognition they do not make this cognition the chief instrument of their investigation. On the other hand, when among the remaining philosophers there arises a difference of opinion then each class and sub-class thereof chiefly relies on a scriptural text in order to viadicate its cherished stand. point and on the basis of such a text uses argumentation with a view to reading its own stand into this text. As against this, the Nyaya-Vaisesika and Sankhya-Yoga traditions, at the time when a difference of opinion arises within the fold of either, seek to endorse their respective stands with the aid of argumentation and thought-power alone and without basing themselves on the scriptural texts unanimously acceptable to them.