Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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in any great detail, so no claims to omniscient in this condition is being emphasized. There are two further steps (and verses) before this claim is possible. 7. Almost verbatim from a friendly personal epistle to me (Doniger). 8. See Matilal Perception, is devoted through and through to this argument; p 424 on ultimate real universals and their assimilation; while Kant;s universals were a priori; Aristotle's grounded in the physical, in Nyaya it is mixed up by a relation of inherence (samavaya). 9. Zilberman adds comeasurability and value to the analysis, retaining its empirical ground nonetheless, for perception without samavaya fails to acquire a categorical definition..pp.153-197 ff. Only by analogy is it said to have the clarity of yoga-perception, but the higher up the hierarchy the more logical-formal is the process and the greater the certainty. Zilberman, Birth of Meaning in Hindu Philosophy (Boston Series in Philosophy of Science, 1988).
10. The erstwhile debate among British empiricists of whether the medium is that of sense-data or some light-fusion radiation, phenomenalism's abhi-vikapla gatherings, or as in the astika-Indian context, whether the senseorgan of the mind or some subtle vibratory consciousness loops across to the table - and even to the non-existent stars in our heavenward wonderment, or the absent partner in the deadful darkness -- need not concern us for the moment. See also work of Sibajiban Bhattacharya, Nyaya concept of visesyata objective knowledge (book at home). 11. I am taking the tenets of Nyaya realism as outlined by Matilal to be indicative of this cognitive holism, see Perception, p. 5. 12. Gautama, Nyayasutra (=N.S.) 2.1.34 Nyayadarsanam with Vatsyayana's Bhasya, (NSBh) Uddyotkara's Varttika (NS.vart), Vacaspati Misra's Tatparyatika and Visvanatha's Vrtti, Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1985, p. 497-8 (reprint of Calcutta first edition, 1936-44 edited by Taranatha Nyaya-Tarkatirtha et al]); see also Mohanty (op cit. p. 89); and Matilal Perception, chp. 1. Gautama and commentators discuss 'self under Chapter III, I. Bhasa-Pariccheda (B.P.) 65: yogajo dvividhah prokto yukta-yunjanabhedah (Bhasaparicheddah Karikavali of Visvanatha-nyayapancanan-bhattacarya with Muktavalisamgraha by Pancanana Bhattacharya Sastri, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Office (n.e.d), pp. 241-246; Nyayasiddhantamuktavali (NSM) of Visvanatha Panchanan Bhattacharya with Dinakari (Prakasa) Commentary by Mahadeva Bhatta & Dinakar Bhatta and Ramarudri (Tarangini) Commentary by Ramarudra Bhattacharya & Pt Rajesvara Sastgri, Edited by Pt. Harirama Sukla Sastri, Varanasi: Chokhamba Sanksrit Series Office, 1972, pp 202-209.
