Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c7.74

c7.74

² ^2 *Lit* ‘the middle term which has the three characteristics (of a valid syllogism)’ viz ‘the existence (of the middle term) in the probandum, in what is like the *probandum* and its absence in what is not (like the *probandum*)’ (anumeye’tha tattulye sadbhāvo nāstitāsati), *v.* Randle, *Indian Logic in the Early Schools*, pp. 181 ff., cp. H. N Randle, *Fragments from Dinnāga*, London, 1926, pp. 22–5; also, Bochenski, *Formale Logik*, p 503, 53 10 and 53 11. He gives the formal rules as
(1) M is present in S (the fire on the mountain)
(2) M is present in XP (there is smoke in the kitchen which has fire)
(3) M is not present in X-Not-P (there is no smoke in the lake which has no fire).