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Stephen Phillips, "Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology: A Complete and Annotated Translation of the Tattva-cintā-maṇi" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

New Books in Philosophy

CHAPTER

The Four Promenas of Indian Philosophy

The early texts of naa took buddhist, in the main, as opponent to be refuted. And this is where the other a, it's not a promana or knowledge source, but it's a tool tarka or hypothetical or counter factual reasoning,. That would come in and kind of fill in the gaps. Tarka comes in to show that the opponent's thesis, the materialist thesist sthesis, faces unwonted consequences, either infinite regress or contradiction. So so throughout these three volumes, the four, four books in the original sanscrit the four,four promones. Ah, here whatwe we're really getting, it seems like, is

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