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Nyaya

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[nyah-yuh] / ˈnyɑ yə /

noun

  1. (in ancient India) a philosophical school emphasizing logical analysis of knowledge, which is considered as deriving from perception, inference, analogy, and reliable testimony.


Etymology

Origin of Nyaya

From the Sanskrit word nyāya

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What is the principal epistemological tool found in the Nyaya school of philosophy?

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The Vaisheshika system developed independently of Nyaya but gradually came to share many of its core ideas.

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The Vaisheshika system developed independently of Nyaya, but gradually came to share many of its core ideas.

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Nyaya, which can be translated as “method” or “rule,” focuses on logic and epistemology.

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The Vedanta and Nyaya philosophers acknowledge a Supreme Eternal Being, and the immortality of the soul: though, like the Greeks, they differ in their ideas of those subjects.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert