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31. Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire: Gautama’s Nyāya-Sūtra

Posted on 10 December 2016

The Nyāya-Sūtra inaugurates a tradition of logical and epistemological analysis.

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Further Reading

• M. Gangopadhyaya (trans.), Gautama’s Nyāyasūtra with Vātsyāyana’s Commentary (Calcutta: 1982).

 

• J. Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India (London: 2001), chapter 1: “The Motive and Method of Rational Inquiry.”

• B.K. Matilal, Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge (Oxford: 1986), chapter 3.

• S. Bhattacharyya, Development of Nyāya Philosophy and its Social Context (Delhi 2004).

• S. Phillips, Epistemology in Classical India: The Knowledge Sources of the Nyāya School (London: 2012).

• K.H. Potter, Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, vol.2: Nyāya-Vaiśeika (Delhi: 1977).

• V.A. Van Bijlert, Epistemology and Spiritual Authority: the Development of Epistemology and Logic in the Old Nyāya and the Buddhist School of Epistemology (Vienna: 1989).

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