Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t13.32

v1.c7.s7.t13.32

Anumana refers to reasoning; Nyaya faction divided it into three kinds: “Pūrv-avat”, “Cesavat” and “Samanyatsdrstam”. Pūrv-avat means to infer results from causes, like when seeing dark clouds we infer it would rain; “Cesavat” means to infer causes from results, like when seeing the river is full of turbidity, we infer there’s rain in the river’s upstream; Samanyatsdrstam refers to analogy, like when a kind of tree blossoms in one country, we infer the same tree in another country would blossom as well.