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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

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The Inference Store in Sanscrit Philosophy

The word inference in english is a has a much broader sematic range than the word unumana, which is a knowledge taken as one of the basic kow sources ingungation and in sanscrit philosophy. Inference is a very tight form where there is an inferential subject, there is some property that is known to qualify the inferential subject. And so when you see the property f as or somehow, maybe by testimony, as qualifying some individual a, then you automatically carry out then ence that a is g. Westerners look at deductive inference with motes, ponens, remotest tones, disjunctive thits built into the Sanscrit system.

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