Nyāya’s Response to Skepticism

The classical Indian school called Nyāya (literally “logic” or “right reasoning”), is arguably the leading anti-skeptical tradition within all of Indian philosophy. Defending a realist metaphysics and an epistemology of “knowledge sources” (pramāṇa), its responses to skepticism are often appropriate...

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Main Author: Chakrabarti, Kisor Kumar 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: International journal for the study of skepticism
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-89
Further subjects:B the regress argument
B the dream argument
B Nyāya
B problem of induction
B argument of the three times
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Summary:The classical Indian school called Nyāya (literally “logic” or “right reasoning”), is arguably the leading anti-skeptical tradition within all of Indian philosophy. Defending a realist metaphysics and an epistemology of “knowledge sources” (pramāṇa), its responses to skepticism are often appropriated by other schools of thought. This paper examines its responses to skeptical arguments from dreams, from “the three times,” from justificatory regress, and over the problem of induction.
ISSN:2210-5700
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal for the study of skepticism
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22105700-bja10032