[Buddha-l] Pramana terms

[Piya Tan]

Thanks, Richard, for those warmly humorous examples.

Piya


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 12:15 +0800, Piya Tan wrote:
>
>> What about the third example where "the middle is a non-perception
>> from which the
>> absence of the major could be inferred". Could you give me an example?
>
> There is no elephant in my closet, because if there were, I would be
> able to see it. (This illustrates the most basic form of anupalabdhi,
> namely, that the failure to observe something that would be observed if
> present indicates that the thing in question is absent.)
>
> There is no feeling of cold in that heretic who is burning at the stake,
> because fire is incompatible with cold. (This illustrates the principle
> that if one observes something that is incompatible with another thing,
> then the second thing cannot be present where the thing incompatible
> with it is observed.)
>
> --
> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
>
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