E-grāmata: Nyaya Sutra - on Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary

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