Note on the Authorship of Nyāyabindu
✍ Scribed by G. A. Jacob
- Book ID
- 125642592
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1905
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0035-869X
- DOI
- 10.2307/25208771
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## ANOTEONTHENAVYA-NYAYAACCOUNTOFNUMBER Old Nyaya viewed number as a kind of quality Cguna) which substances (and only substances) have. Like other qualities it inhered in its locus. Thus with regard to the relation between two-ness (dvitva) and two pots, the older Naiyayikas held that two-ness in
Scholars have usually translated the term sddhyasama ocurring in early Sanskrit philosophical texts as petitio principii. Curiously enough, H. N. Randle used 'petitio principii' to translate prakaran, asama, one of the five fallacies of inference mentioned in the Nydyas~tra. 1 While commenting on s6