Semantic Reasoning: A Scientific Commentary on Nyaya Sutras (Six Systems of Vedic Philosophy, #5)

Nyāya is one of the Six Systems of Vedic philosophy, and Nyāya Sūtra is the oldest and most authoritative text on this philosophy. This book translates and comments on this ancient text.

Nyāya presents an alternative system of logic and reasoning in which reality exists as a potential, and it manifests an answer based on a question. This question is called "absence" and the answer is called "presence". We are all combinations of some presence and absence—i.e., some answers and questions. Ou...