Dharmakīrti's theory of inference revaluation and reconstruction /
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Author / Creator: | Prasad, Rajendra, 1926- |
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Imprint: | New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. |
Description: | xliii, 257 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Dharmakīrti, -- active 7th century. -- Nyāyabindu. Dharmottara. -- Nyāyabinduṭīkā. Nyāyabindu (Dharmakīrti) Nyāyabinduṭīkā (Dharmottara) Inference. Buddhist logic. Buddhist logic. Inference. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4974813 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. Knowledge and Human Ends
- Ch. 3. Division of Inference (Anumana) into Inference for Oneself (Svarthanumana) and Inference for Someone Else (Pararthanumana)
- Ch. 4. Inference for Oneself (Svarthanumana)
- Ch. 5. Non-cognition as Logical Reason (Anupalabdhi Hetu)
- Ch. 6. Forms of Inference Using Non-cognition (Anupalabdhi) as Logical Reason (Hetu)
- Ch. 7. Identity as Logical Reason (Svabhava Hetu)
- Ch. 8. Effect as Logical Reason (Karya Hetu)
- Ch. 9. Some Problems in Proving the Completeness of Dharmakirti's Theory of Inference
- Ch. 10. Inference for Someone Else (Pararthanumana)
- Ch. 11. The Role of Example (Drstanta)
- Ch. 12. Inference for Someone Else and Aristotelian Syllogism
- Ch. 13. Inference for Someone Else and the Deductive-Inductive Distinction
- Ch. 14. Impermissible Inferences
- Ch. 15. Concluding Overview.