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In this Part One an attempt has been made to esplain Navya-Nyaya concepts and theories which will help in under standing Gangesa’s text translated in Part One
The volumes of the Project on The History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India’s heritage and present them in an interrelated way. In spite of their unitary look, they recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The Project is executed by scholars with different ideological persuasions and methodological approaches and is ...
This book contains an elaborate discussion of different western and Indian theories of language, a comparative study of epistemology of authority, and Navya-Nyaya theories of meaning of words, and of sentences of different moods--indicative, imperative, optative,--and also of ought-sentences.
The present volume of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies takes up the history of Nyaya-Vaisesika where Volume Two left off, in the 14th century. With Gangesa we enter the literature that has come to be known as Navyanyaya, i.e., ‘new Nyaya.’ Gangesa’s seminal work, the Tattvacintamani is one of the most famour, as well as most difficult works of Indian Philosophy and this volume beings with the most ...