The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.39

c15.39

² Nimitta is both cause and sign. The chief sense is ‘sign’, ‘presage’, but in view of a reasoning current in medicine, both outside and in India, according to which *post hoc ergo propter hoc*, the preceding sign is easily taken as the determining cause; this gives the value of “cause” taken by the word.