Exam 3: Philosophical Perception, Inference, and Language in Indian Philosophy

We have ………… inference when the middle term is both positively and negatively related to the major term.

The clear perception of a thing together with its attributes is………….

According to Nyäya, the universals are a distinct class of reals. This is known as……… perception.

Bare sensation or simple apprehension is

The presence of the middle term in the minor term is called …………..

The knowledge of ………….. is distinguished from inference because the vyäpti or the invariable concomitance is not needed here.

Kumarila admits the distinction between existential and injunctive propositions and limits the scope of the Veda to the………….

Purva Mïmamsâ regards the …………… as eternal and authorless and of infallible authority.

………… perception is the direct sense-experience which is undifferentiated and non-relational and is free from assimilation, discrimination, analysis and synthesis.

Perceptual judgment or relational apprehension is

According to …………. a sentence is defined as a collection of words and a word is defined as that which is potent to convey its meaning.

There are ………….. Members in the Nyäya syllogism.

The …………. testimony is perfect and infallible because the Vedas are spoken by God.

In ……….the minor term is not unreal, but the middle term cannot by its very nature be present in the minor term.

The theory of illusion accepted by Nyaya is based on………… kind of perception.

The methods of induction by which universal causal relationship is established may be………

The method of inference is explained as consisting of three parts: pratijna, hetu, and………..

The so-called assertive propositions in the Veda are authoritative only when they help persons to perform their duties is known as………….

In the ………inference we do not require the formal statement of the different members of inference.

In order to be intelligible a sentence must conform to the conditions such as,………..