Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t2.3

v1.c7.s7.t2.3

The term “Hetuvidya” can be divided into “hetu”, which means knowledge or wisdom and combined, "vidya" refers to knowledge or wisdom acquired through inferred cause or basis. Therefore, Hetuvidya is a kind of logical reasoning that obtains knowledge by proving an argument on certain basis and studying principal components of the argumentation. Overall, Hetuvidya is a kind of logic, though it includes considerable contents of argumentation and general epistemology. Since Buddhism has quite consummate discussions on Hetuvidya, many people would like to refer Hetuvidya as Buddhist logic.