Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.79

c16.79

Inference is, therefore, based on the establishment of an invariable concomitance (*Vyāpti*) between the mark and the character inferred. The Hindu inference is, therefore, neither merely formal nor merely material, but a combined Formal-Material Deductive-Inductive process. It is neither the Aristotelian syllogism (Formal Deductive process) nor Mill's Induction (Material-Inductive process) but the real Inference which must combine formal validity with material truth, inductive generalization with deductive particularization.