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HPI 31 - Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire - Gautama’s Nyaya-Sutra

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Skeptics of the Niaya Sutra

Niaya thinkers tend just to assume that the Primanas must be reliable. This is a theory of default trust in our cognitions, says Ziana. The two schools are indeed in basic agreement on this, he adds. Niaya supplies a further argument that can be used against skeptics who refuse to assumption that the Primana do indeed provide knowledge.

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