Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t2.47

v1.c7.s7.t2.47

The *Tarka sastra* introduces a “five-part” syllogism in respect of occasions for rebuke ie “proposition, cause, example, application, and conclusion”, and uses the following example to illustration this: Proposition: Sound is non-eternal. Cause: Because it is created.