Tarka-saṅgraha of Annambhaṭṭa

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Government Central Press, 1918 - 392 pages
 

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Page 252 - Induction is that operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true in a particular case or cases, will be true in all cases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects. In other words, Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true of the whole class, or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times.
Page xii - ... become worthy of general acceptance. Such seems to have been the case with doctrines of God, of causality and of creation, in India as well as in Greece. The true aim of a history of philosophy may be explained in the words of Zeller: — , " The systems of philosophy, however peculiar and selfdependent they may be, thus appear as the members of a larger historical inter-connection ; in respect to this alone can they be perfectly understood; the further we follow it the more the individuals become...
Page 121 - He considered the basis of all bodies to 1>e extremely fine particles, differing in form and nature, which he supposed to be dispersed throughout space, and to which his follower Epicurus first gave the name of atoms. To these atoms he attributed a rectilinear motion, in consequence of which such as are homogeneous united, whilst the lighter were dispersed through space. The author of the second hypothesis was the famous Kant.
Page 211 - The former expresses merely that change in the state of the mind which is produced by an impression upon an organ of sense ; (of which change we can conceive the mind to be conscious, without any knowledge of external objects) : the latter expresses the knowledge we obtain, by means of our sensations, of the qualities of matter.
Page v - PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The first edition of this book was...
Page 252 - We can only observe some of the particulars, a greater or smaller proportion. Now it is in the transition from these to the totality of particulars, that the real inductive inference consists ; not in the transition from the totality to the class-term which denotes that totality and connotes its determining common attribute.
Page lviii - Start as we may," says Prof. Adamson, " in popular current distinctions, no sooner do logical problems present themselves than it becomes apparent that, for adequate treatment of them, reference to...
Page 267 - Philosophy, vol. iv., p. 365), that two of the five members of Kanada's argument " are manifestly superfluous, while, by the introduction of an example in the third, the universality of the conclusion is vitiated...
Page 173 - Apprehension in Logic, is that act or condition of the mind in which it receives a notion of any object; and which is analogous to the perception of the senses.
Page ix - The supple mind of the Oriental is said to be wanting in the mental grip and measure required for strictly scientific thinking. Ueberweg, when he laid down the above proposition , was not wholly ignorant of the existence of Ny&ya philosophy, but his knowledge of it seems to have been very meagre.

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