The University of Nalanda c10.89

c10.89

He does not differ in his division of inference from the Brāhmaṇ or Jain logicians. He makes a departure, however, from the latter logicians when he says that Non-perception, Identity and Causality—these three—form the marks of a syllogism. According to him, then, if, for instance, in the traditional example of fire on a hill, we can show the identity, and causal connection between fire, smoke and the hill and non-perception of the mark in any heterologous instance, we would be justified in inferring that there is fire on the hill because there is smoke.