the pramanas are only inimical to one another insofar as the latter may lead to the metaphysical, essentialist extremes criticized by the Buddhists. Nagarjuna’s illocution in this light seems an attempt to radicalize his difference from a developing Nyaya extensionalist theory of the pramanas, a theory in which the Buddhists and the Naiyayikas are closer than anywhere else. In verse nine of his Vigrahavyavartani, Nagarjuna thematizes an objection to his skeptical "middle" position in the following
There is no substantial difference between Goldman's Causal theory of knowing and the Nyaya account of knowledge and neither of them fully satisfy the distinction between believing a thing and knowing a thing. Goldman's requirement that we must have a causal connection explaining that some proposition is true and one's believing that a proposition is true is required to avert the Gettier problems, according to Goldman. “Jones owns a Ford” is a proposition which Goldman makes in an example that
Din ve bilim arasındaki ilişki Antik Yunan zamanından beri tartışılan bir konudur. Son yıllarda bu konu hakkında filozoflar, düşünürler, ilahiyat profesörleri ve bilim adamları birçok görüş ileri sunmuştur fakat bu görüşler genellikle bu olaya tek bir açıdan bakmaktadır. Bunun sorunun kaynağı çalışmaları yapan insanların olaya sadece kendi çerçevelerinden bakmasıdır, örneğin bir bilim adamı kendi görüşünü kanıtlamaya çalışırken sadece somut kanıtlara bakarken, bir din bilimci daha çok ruhani ve felsefi
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. Epistemology studies the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Much of the debate in epistemology centers on four areas: the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it relates to such concepts as truth, belief, and justification, various problems of skepticism, the sources and scope of knowledge and justified belief, and the criteria for knowledge and justification. Epistemology
Averting Arguments: Nagarjuna’s Verse 29 ABSTRACT: I examine Nagarjuna’s averting an opponent’s argument (Verse 29 of Averting the Arguments), Paul Sagal’s general interpretation of Nagarjuna and especially Sagal’s conception of "averting" an argument. Following Matilal, a distinction is drawn between locutionary negation and illocationary negation in order to avoid errant interpretations of verse 29 ("If I would make any proposition whatever, then by that I would have a logical error. But I
‘Jurisprudence’ means theory of laws. ‘Juries’ means law, ‘prudence’ means knowledge. “The law in essence is a concrete realization of philosophy” Jurisprudence most famously means the entire doctrine of law. It stems from the word ‘jurisprudentia’, which means ‘The Knowledge of Law’. The Ancient Jurisprudence in India was a further development to feudalism which was an important trend in the 20th Century the Sociological Jurisprudence studies the legal system as a part of the social reality. The
The Western Blindness to Non-Western Philosophies Western philosophers still tend to think that philosophy, in a sense that they can take with professional interest, does not exist in non-Western traditions. To persuade them otherwise would require them to make an effort that they prefer to evade. I attempt to begin to persuade them by closely paraphrasing a few arguments by the early Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu and a few by the Indian skeptic and mystic Shriharsha (about 1150 CE). One of Chuang
The Historical Context of The Bhagavad Gita and Its Relation to Indian Religious Doctrines The Bhagavad Gita is perhaps the most famous, and definitely the most widely-read, ethical text of ancient India. As an episode in India's great epic, the Mahabharata, The Bhagavad Gita now ranks as one of the three principal texts that define and capture the essence of Hinduism; the other two being the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras. Though this work contains much theology, its kernel is ethical and its
Recovering Paul Ricoeur's Intervention in the Gadamer-Habermas Debate ABSTRACT: In this paper I will examine a contemporary response to an important debate in the "science" of hermeneutics, along with some cross-cultural implications. I discuss Paul Ricoeur's intervention in the debate between Gadamer and Habermas concerning the proper task of hermeneutics as a mode of philosophical interrogation in the late 20th century. The confrontation between Gadamer and Habermas turns on the assessment