Stephen Phillips
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624 appearances
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first heard Sep 2021
last heard Sep 2021
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Uh after all, uh just the the core Nyala Sutra
commentators, which is Gautama the Nyaya Sutra, and Vatsyayana, the first uh commentator, the the Bhasha, and Udyotaka who's ca who is elaborating the uh the commentary of Udhyayana and then Vachaspati who writes a lot of notes on Udjotaka and then Udayana comes along.
This so there's the that runs about in Sanskrit, maybe what?
Three thousand pages?
Yeah,
And there's then there are uh uh you know, there are these other figures who are not in the Nyaya Sutra commentarial tradition.
If if you want if yeah my own sense, look, there's there's lots of sort of brilliant, succinct definitions.
uh for example, of knowledge that Gangesha gives, of of pervasion or entailment that he gives.
It's not so much I
I I mean a as a whole, he has packaged the
The epistemology
In a in a in a in a sus even though it my translation I think runs nineteen hundred pages, he's packaged it in a very succinct way.
Where also you see and this is not really appreciated in the aya, you see the coherence relationships.
see you see how it all hangs together as a
And I I think Gangesha's underappreciated uh Nanyaya as a whole for uh for its uh sense of coherence.
of a of a whole epistemological system, indeed a whole world view because you know the epistemology's all wrapped up in ontology and and and you know, uh the ontological questions I think are are more difficult to resolve and uh a little more brittle than the the epistemology seems
uh totally worthy of study by the most uh uh adept epistemologists of our own day.
Ontology uh doesn't have such strength.
uh I mean, you know, uh a very sys uh simple system of of atoms and uh other uh basic types of Brio and a lot of concern about universals and so on.
Uh I mean this is tied into the epistemology, for example, in the section on it on on on testimony, on the chapter on testimony, um there's concern
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