Gaṅgeśa’s Theory of Truth

Introduction

The book, published in 1966, offers a text, translation and analysis of the section on the validity of knowledge (prāmāṇyavāda) in Gaṅgeśa’s Tattvacintāmaṇi, the fourteenth-century work that founded Navya-Nyāya. The section concerns whether the truth of a cognition is apprehended by the same cognition (intrinsic validity, as Mīmāṃsā held) or only through further cognition (extrinsic validity, as Nyāya held). In a long introduction Mohanty relates this debate to modern Western theories of truth. The book helped to make Navya-Nyāya accessible to philosophers without Sanskrit.

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• Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought1992 · J. N. Mohanty

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