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Description

1. x, 303 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

1. "The anonymous pre-Gańgesa Navya-Nyaya treatise Upādhidarpaṇa (UD) deals exclusively with the so-called upādhi, a key concept in the Navya-Nyaya theory of inference. The present volume contains the first published edition and translation of the only extant manuscript of the UD. Numerous notes have been added to the translation in order to elucidate the contents and to give a clue to the historical context, as regards authors, works, and philosophical doctrines that are referenced in the UD. Moreover, an extensive introductory chapter provides new insights into relations between the Navya-Nyaya doctrine of upādhi and modern logical theories such as John L. Pollock's theory of defeasible reasoning and property theories, especially property adaptations of well-founded and non-well-founded set theories."--

Series statement

1. Harvard Oriental series ; volume ninety-seven

Uniform title

1. Upādhidarpaṇa.
2. Upādhidarpaṇa. English.
3. Harvard oriental series ; 97.

Subject

1. Upādhidarpaṇa
2. Navya Nyāya
3. Logic > India > Early works to 1800
4. Inference > Early works to 1800
5. Inference
6. Logic
7. India

Genre/Form

1. Early works.

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Authorship and Date of the UD -- 1.2. Survey of the Contents of the UD -- 1.3. The Basics of the Nyaya Theory of Inference -- 1.3.1. Deductive Components in a Five-membered Inference -- 1.3.2. The Third Member of Five-membered Inferences as Rule of Enumerative Induction -- 1.3.3. Pervasion as a Nomic Generalization -- 1.4. The upddhi and Its Function as a Vitiator -- 1.5. The Specific Defining Characteristic -- 1.6. The General Defining Characteristic -- 1.6.1. The Problem of Foundation Related to the UD's General Defining Characteristic -- 1.6.1.1. George Bealer's Property Theory T1 and His Quasi Set-Theoretic Extensions -- 1.6.1.2. The System T1-ST2 -- 1.6.1.3. The System T1-A -- 1.6.1.4. The System T1-NFU -- 1.6.1.5. Advocates of a Well-Founded Property Concept -- 1.6.1.6. The UD's Non-Weil-Founded Property Concept and the Self-Residence of the UD's General Defining Characteristic -- 1.7. Dubious and Apparent upadhis -- 1.7.1. Ascertained vs. Dubious upadhis -- Some Examples -- 1.7.2. Credulous vs. Skeptical Reasoning -- 1.7.3. Apparent upadhis -- 1.8. Taking Stock -- 1.9. Notes: Chapter 1 -- 2. Detailed Synopsis -- 3. Manuscript and Edition of the UD -- 3.1. Description of the Manuscript of the UD -- 3.2. Editorial Policy -- 3.2.1. Conventions in the Text -- 3.2.2. Editorial Signs and Abbreviations -- 3.3. The UD (Text) -- 4. Annotated English Translation -- 4.1. Prefatory Remarks -- 4.2. Translation of the UD -- 4.3. Notes: Chapter 4 -- 5. Glossary.

Call number

1. JFF 22-639

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-302).

Language (note)

1. Chiefly in English; includes the Upādhidarpaṇa in romanized Sanskrit and English translation.

Author

1. Guhe, Eberhard, author.

Title

1. An Indian theory of defeasible reasoning : the doctrine of upādhi in the Upādhidarpaṇa / by Eberhard Guhe.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University, 2021.

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Harvard Oriental series ; volume ninety-seven
2. Harvard oriental series ; 97.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-302).

Language

1. Chiefly in English; includes the Upādhidarpaṇa in romanized Sanskrit and English translation.

Added title

1. Upādhidarpaṇa.
2. Upādhidarpaṇa. English.

ISBN

1. 0674273419 (hardcover)
2. 9780674273412 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JFF 22-639