By Bimal Krishnal Matilal
ISBN-10: 0674606507
ISBN-13: 9780674606500
The Navya-nyaya (“New Method”) university of common sense has exerted a profound effect on Indian philosophy because the 12th century. during this process, with its hierarchy of abstractions instead of of sessions, the doctrine of negation is essential. Bimal Krishnal Matilal expounds Navya-nyaya conception by means of systematically translating its arguments into the language of Western common sense. He additionally presents texts and literal translations of 2 typical works on negation, one every one from the orthodox and the unconventional wings of the varsity, and a close remark of his personal upon them.
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3-9. 3] THE CONTENT OF COGNITION 23 singular terms have no denotation. "5 Examples of this are 'Cerberus' and 'Pegasus'. "6 Just as a term, although meaningful, may fail to denote an object, so a cognition, in the Nyäya view, may also fail to guarantee that the totality of its content is existent as such in the external world. A cognition of 'a hare's horn' may very well occur in some person, but the real horns of a hare do not exist. Nyäya claims only that there is a real basis out of which such a cognition arises, and admits that the basis may be quite different from what the cognition takes it to be.
Here (7) holds because of an astronomical fact. But (8) also holds at the same time. This is so because the two expressions, as Frege says, refer to their common denotation in different ways. If we understand the language, we can grasp the sense of the expressions. To apply the Nyäya conceptual scheme to this case, even if the morning star is the same as the evening star, the cognition expressed as 'the morning star' and the cognition expressed as 'the evening star' are different in the structure of their visayatâs (the totality of contents).
Property' is here used in the broadest sense. Nyäya also asserts that to call something 'property' is not to say that it is real, 29 Cf. "tat-prapanco viparydsah samsayoï'piprakirtitah," Visvanâtha, Bhâsâparicchedat Compare also Prasastapâda's division oijnâna into vidyä and avidyä. 30 1 shall abbreviate "if and only if" as iff henceforward. 31 "Yatra yan nästi tatra tasya jnanam, tad-àbhâva-vati tat-prakärakam vä apramâ/ saty anubhavatvam eva vd pramätvam" Ganges'a, TC, in TCM, Part I, p. 401.
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