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Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology is here translated and explained in an invaluable contribution to the history of knowledge, making available in English the very best within the traditions of philosophical speculation and argument in India and Sanskrit over more than twenty centuries. The "Jewel" distills the best arguments and most important positions of the past and provides the dominant focus for later philosophic reflection.
The achievement of a great 14th-century logician, Gangesa Upadhyaya ("Professor Gangesa"), the Tattva-cinta-mani is a masterpiece of world philosophy, impacting in classical India not only philosophy but also literary criticism, jurisprudence, and medical theory for centuries. Among scholars, it is commonly counted—with perhaps one or two Buddhist treatises and one or two in Vedanta—among the top four or five philosophic works in the whole long history of classical Indian civilization (from 500 bce to the modern period). This three-volume edition of the work marks the first time time it has been translated into English in its entirety. Becoming the focal point of the long-running Nyaya school and canonized in Sanskrit literature, it is famed, across many schools of philosophy, for cogency of argument and consistency of analysis. Focused on four "knowledge sources" recognized in Nyaya, the text covers the epistemology of perception, inference, analogy and testimony in four chapters.
In this landmark translation, Stephen Phillips provides an English-speaking audience all four parts with readable translations and running commentary. He contextualizes, analyzes and translates the text into understandable prose targeting especially those working in analytic philosophy but also anyone unfamiliar with Nyaya who may want to see and make use of its findings now accessible as never before.
Contents
VOLUME ONE
Acknowledgements
Bibliographical Preface
Introduction
Auspicious Performance
The Perception Chapter
Knowing Veridicality
Production of Veridical Awareness
Defining Veridical Awareness
Perceptual Presentation of Something as Other Than What It Is
Defining Perception
Sensory Connection
Inherence
Non-Cognition
Absence
The Connection of the Sense Object and Light
The Perceptibility of Air
The Fiery Character of Gold
The Atomicity of the "Internal Organ" (manas)
Apperception
Indeterminate Perception
Qualifiers versus Indirect Indicators
Determinate Perception
VOLUME TWO
Acknowledgements
The Inference Chapter
Inferential Knowledge
Non-Sharing of a Location (in Defining vyapti, "Pervasion")
(Some Further) Prima Facie (Wrong) Views of Pervasion
The Right View of Pervasion
Universal Absence
Pervasion among Particulars
A Quatrad of Entailments
The Method of Grasping Pervasion
Hypothetical Reasoning (tarka)
The Uniformity of Pervasion
The Sensory Relation Characteristic of (Knowledge of) Universals
The upadhi, the "Undercutting Condition"
What It Is To Be an Inferential Subject
Reflection (paramarsa)
The Causal Status of the Inferential Mark
Positive-only Inference
Negative-only Inference
Implication (arthâpatti)
The Components (of a Formal "Inference for Others")
The "Pseudo-Prover," hetv-abhasa
Deviation
The Common
The Unexampled
The Inconclusive
The Contradictory
Counterinference
The "Unestablished," asiddhi
The "Defeated," badha
Showing Inference Failure
Inference to isvava (the "Lord")
"Power," sakti
Locatable Power
Causality
"Liberation," mukti
The Analogy Chapter
VOLUME THREE
Acknowledgements
The Testimony Chapter
Denial of Testimony as a Knowledge Source
Mutual Expectation
Semantic Fit
Contiguity
Intention
The Non-Eternality of Words
Parts of the Veda as Lost or Hidden
Injunction
Apurva
Reference to the Universal, Part One
Reference to the Universal, Part Two ("Indirect Indication," lak?a?a)
Compounds
Verbal Endings
Verbal Roots
Verbal Prefixes
A Quatrad of Knowledge Sources with Knowledge Source Status (Gesture)
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Subtopics by chapter and section (following the delineations of the editors of the Sanskrit editions, N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya and Gaurinath Sastri)
Texts and Translations
Bibliography
Index
