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Scepticism Revisited : Nagarjuna and Nyaya via Matilal
D. P. Chattopadhyaya

 

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

  1. Bimal Krishna Matilal, Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, pp. 46-7.

  2. Nydya, Gautama's Nydya-Sutra with Vatsyayana's Commentary, Tr. Mrinal Kanti Gangopadhyaya, Indian Studies: Past and Present, Calcutta, 1982, pp. 77-98.
  3. Nagarjumyana: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nagarjuna, by Chr. Lindtner, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987, pp. 34-7.

  4. Sunyatdsaptati Karikd (SSK), ss. 20-1.

  5. SSK, 73.

  6. Nyaya-Sutra of Gotama by Satish Chandra Vidyabhusana, New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation, 1975, pp. 22-42.

  7. T.R.V. Murti, The Central Philosophy of Buddhism, London: Unwin Paper­ backs, 1980.

  8. Nyaya-Sutra, 11,1.37.

  9. Ibid., 1,1.5.

  10. D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Induction, Probability and Skepticism, Albany: SUNY Press, 1991, p. 45; see also, R. Carnap. Logical Foundation of Probability, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1950, pp. 205-8.

  11. B.& Matilal Perception, Oxford: Clarendon Press,. 1986, p 124; see also, his The Word and the World: India's Contribution to the Study of Language, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 49-74.

  12. Quoted from Stcherbatsky's  Conception of Buddhist Nirvana, Varanasi: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, 1975, pp. 77-8.

  13. Satkari Mookerjee, The Buddhist Philosophy of Flux, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981, pp. 273-81.

  14. Matilal, Perception, 1986, p. 244.
  15. Michael Dummett, Truth and Other Enigmas, London; Duckworth, 1978, p. xxxix.

  16. Matilal, The Word and the World,-pp. 29-30.

  17. 'Sri Aurobindo on Knowiedge and Language' (Ch.ll) and 'Enlightenment Communication and Silence1 (Ch.15) in D.P. Chattopadhyaya, Knowledge,Freedom and Language: An Interwoven Fabric of Man, Time and World, Delhi; Motilal Banarsidass, 1989.
  18. Jaakko Hintikka and Patrick Suppos, Ed, Information and Inference, Dordrecht-Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1970, pp. 3-27, 263-97.

  19. D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Induction, Probability and Skepticism, pp. 259-61, 282.