EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
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Inference
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Arthapatti
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Testimony
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Anupalabdhi
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Detailed explanation-1: -arthapatti, (Sanskrit: “the incidence of a case”) in Indian philosophy, the fifth of the five means of knowledge (pramana) by which one obtains accurate knowledge of the world. Arthapatti is knowledge arrived at through presumption or postulation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Arthapatti is a Sanskrit term meaning “presumption” or “implication.” In the yogic philosophy of the Advaita Vedanta system and the Bhatta school of Purva-Mimamsa, it is said to be one of the six pranamas, or means of obtaining knowledge.
Detailed explanation-3: -Arthapatti (Postulation): This means postulation, supposition or presumption of a fact. Through this Pramana, we discover a fact as a result of a contradiction between two facts already known to be well established. A common example is-Devadutta does not take his food during day time. Yet he is quite strong and fat.
Detailed explanation-4: -Arthāpatti ‘postulation’ is the instrument of knowledge through which we know that Devadatta is out given that he is alive and not home. In Classical India, just like among contemporary scholars, several thinkers (especially of the Nyāya school) have tried to show that it is only a subset of inference.