Nyaya Sutra – on Philosophical Method : Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)

Introduction?Chapter 1a?The use;?Means of valid cognition;?Objects worth knowing;?On the method, first part;?Established tenets;?The method defined;?Further parts of the method?Chapter 1b?Verbalised forms;?Fallacious reasons;?Deliberate misinterpretation;?General inferential mistakes?Chapter 2a?Doubt;?General characteristics of the means of valid cognition;?Definition of perception;?Perception is inference; Whole made up of? parts;?Inference;?Present;?Comparison;?Statement in general;?Statement in detail?Chapter 2b?Four means of valid cognition;?Non-eternity of sound;?Modifications of sound;?Ascertaining the meaning of words?Chapter 3a?The different senses;?The self is separate from the body;?The organ of sight is not single;?The self is different from the mind;?The self is eternal;?Physical body;?Senses derive from the elements;?Differences between the sense organs;?Sense objects?Chapter 3b?Understanding is not eternal;?Momentariness in general;?Understanding as a quality of the self;?Understanding springs up and comes to a final end;?Understanding not a quality of the body;?Mind;?The body brought about by unseen causes?Chapter 4a?Worldly activities and moral flaws;?Three types of moral flaws;?Hereafter;?The material cause is emptiness;?The material cause is the Lord;?Things come into being without cause;?Refuting that everything is impermanent;?Refuting that everything is permanent;?Refuting that everything is totally particular;?Refuting the emptiness of everything;?Refuting enumerations;?Fruits of action;?Suffering;?Final liberation?Chapter 4b?True knowledge;?Parts and wholes consisting of parts;?That which is without parts;?Refuting the breaking up of outer objects;?Increasing true knowledge;?Protecting true knowledge?Chapter 5a?Fallacious indications of a true counter-position;?Six rejoinders;?Two rejoinders;?Infinite regress and? a generally perceived fact that is contrary;?Non-emergence;?Doubt;?Subsection;?Absence of a reason;?Implication;?Non-differentiation;?What is truly possible;?Perception;?Non-perception;?What is not eternal;?What is eternal;?Effect;?Six positions in a fallacious debate?Chapter 5b?Five grounds for losing an argument;?Four grounds for losing an argument;?Three grounds for losing an argument;?Repetitiveness;?Inability to give an answer;?Assenting to the opinion of the opponent;?Unusual statements;?Bibliography;?Index