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Nyaya

A school of formal logic and epistemology, concerned with what counts as a valid means of knowledge and how sound argument can be distinguished from sophistry.

scholarship. Modern scholarship — academic/historical analysis.

Tradition: hinduism Period: late-vedic-to-classical Theme: logic Theme: epistemology Theme: method Theme: argument

Nyaya is a school this archive files under philosophy rather than religion in any narrow sense: its subject is not liberation or devotion directly but the more foundational question of how anyone can claim to know anything at all, and what separates a sound argument from a merely persuasive one.

Valid means of knowledge

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Nyaya developed one of the most detailed pre-modern systems of logical analysis, later studied alongside comparable systems from other traditions. (scholarship)

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