The University of Nalanda c10.63

c10.63

1. "The proposition, the point of disputation, or the Thesis, is a judgment, not the terms of a judgment."³ 2. Rejection of the five membered syllogism. Maitreya spoke of two kinds of thesis साध्य, आत्मसंबंध and परसंबंध and Vasubandhu described two kinds of syllogism, one of five parts and the other of two,¹ it was Diṅnāga who took the decisive step of rejecting उपनय and निगमन as superfluous even in a Parārthānumāna.