Hetvabhasa, Hetvābhāsa, Hetu-abhasa: 16 definitions
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Hetvabhasa has 16 English definitions available.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchHetvābhāsa (हेत्वाभास):—(hetu + ā) m. Scheingrund, Scheinbeweis [NYĀYAS.1,2,45.] [TARKAS. 40.] [Weber’s Indische Studien.1,18,4 v. u.] [Oxforder Handschriften 240,b, No. 586.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 671] (rahasya). unter den 22 nigrahasthānaṃ [NYĀYAS. 5, 2, 25.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 114, 17.]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Hetv, Abhasa, Hetu.
Starts with: Hetvabhasadidhititippani, Hetvabhasanirupana, Hetvabhasaparishkara, Hetvabhasarahasya, Hetvabhasarirupana, Hetvabhasasamanyalakshana, Hetvabhasatippani, Hetvabhasavyakhya.
Full-text (+33): Savyabhicara, Hetvabhasanirupana, Hetvabhasarahasya, Hetvabhasasamanyalakshana, Hetvabhasavyakhya, Hetvabhasadidhititippani, Sadhyasama, Kalatyayapadishta, Abhasa, Anupasamharin, Hetvabhas, Apadishta, Visheshanasiddha, Viruddha, Shodasha Padartha, Padartha, Kalatita, Asaddhetu, Kalatyaya, Vakchala.
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A study of the philosophy of Jainism (by Deepa Baruah)
Chapter I.g - A brief description of Prameyakamalamārtaṇḍa < [Chapter I - Introduction]
Chapter II.c - Classification of Pramāṇa < [Chapter II - Jaina theory of Knowledge]
Anumana in Indian Philosophy (by Sangita Chakravarty)
(F). Fallacy (Hetvābhāsa) < [Chapter 2 - Treatment of Anumāna in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Philosophy]
(D). The Fallacy of Anumāna (in Mīmāṃsā-Vedānta Philosophy) < [Chapter 4 - Treatment of Anumāna in Mīmāṃsā-Vedānta Philosophy]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 20 - Acquirement of debating devices < [Chapter VIII - The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Philosophy]
Part 17 - Inference (anumāna) < [Chapter VIII - The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Philosophy]
Part 5 - Philosophy in the Nyāya sūtras < [Chapter VIII - The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Philosophy]
Nyaya-Vaisheshika categories (Study) (by Diptimani Goswami)
Categories in the Nyāya system < [Chapter 2 - Salient features of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika System]
The validity of Anumana (inference) in Nyaya system (by Babu C. D)
Chapter 3.7 - Fallacies of Inference
Chapter 4.3.5 - Navya Nyaya (e): Five types of defective reasoning (hetvabhasa)
Chapter 4.2.2 - The Prakaranas (b): Tarkikaraksha by Varadaraja
Vasudevavijaya of Vasudeva (Study) (by Sajitha. A)
Hetvābhāsodāharaṇa of Koḍuṅṅallūr Vidvān Iḷaya Tampurān < [Chapter 1 - Śāstrakāvyas—A Brief Survey]
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