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THE NYAYA PHILOSOPHY.
via, Mithyagnanam, and the annihilation of Muthyagnanam will be followed by the annihilation of the entire series of causes.
The Naiyāyika proceeds to prove the existence of God by an argument which is Theistic
argument of inuch like what is known as the cosmologi. the Nyaya cal argument in the European Pholosophy. Like the latter, the Naiyáyika's proof also reasons from the world as effect to God as its First Cause 'Faafai pana iata. The four mahabkutas require, as effects, a cause This, however, looks, at first sight, like Effect-hood
imples 20 a petitro principiu, for, to admit that a intelligent thing is an effect, is to say that it has a effectuate. cause. The real difficulty lies, it will be said, not in showing that an effect must have a cause but in proving that a thing is an effect, that it has a nor a mark possessed by the Paksha by means of which, its statica (effect-bood) can be inferred. The Naiyàyıka finds such a mark in praegna or the fact of possessing parts. Thus aterra (being possessed of parts) leads to wa (effect-hood) and a to najmera (the fact of being effectuated or caused by an agent).
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