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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9788124608173
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	121 Um1 F
Item number	102220
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Uma Chattopadhyay
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Faultless to a Fault :
Remainder of title	Gaṅgeśa on Upamāna in Indian Epistemology /
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication	New Delhi
Name of publisher	DK Printworld
Date of publication	2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	114
Accompanying material	23 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	The present volume is a sequel to the author s previous work entitled Dishonoured by Philosophers: Upamana in Indian Epistemology (2009) where she introduced the notion of upamana, its definition, process and also its status in Indian epistemology in general and the Nyaya school in particular. The book ended with an exposition of Udayanacarya, an eleventh-century Nyaya philosopher. But the debate did not end there. Many Indian philosophers took the hard task of reducing upamana to other pramanas, and there were other objections as well. The sequel volume is a logical and historical extension of the arguments made in defence of upamana in the previous work. An interesting feature of the continuing debate is that a large number of Indian philosophers including the Bauddhas, Jainas, Samkhyas, Vaisheshikas, Mimamsakas, Carvakas and even individual Naiyayikas such as Bhasarvajna were still doubtful of the status of upamana. Over and above all, there was the question of logical economy in a scheme of pramanas. The present work for the first time provides an intensive study of how the Indian philosopher Gangesha Upadhyaya took up the challenge in the twelfth century to give upamana a definite, irreducible place in the scheme of pramanas. Based on Gangesha s monumental work Upamanacintamani along with Pragalbhacarya s celebrated commentary on it, the author reopens the question of upamana in a dialogical method and tries to measure the perfection of Gangesha s arguments. She upholds Gangesha s standpoint as the height of perfection, the most vigorous defence of upamana in a series of defences and objections in a long course, and titles this task of Gangesha Faultless to a Fault in her book.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Upamāna
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Topical Term	Nyaya
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Upamānakhaṇḍa (Gaṅgeśa)
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