The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus c10.37

c10.37

This Pañchakáraṇí, the Joint Method of Difference, has some advantages over J. S. Mill’s Method of Difference, or, what is identical therewith, the earlier Buddhist Method ; and the form of the canon, bringing out in prominent relief the unconditionality and the immediateness of the antecedence, is as superior from a theoretical point of view to J. S. Mill’s canon, and is as much more consonant than the latter to the practice of every experimenter, as the Hindu analysis of Anumána as a Formal-Material Deductive-Inductive Inference is more comprehensive and more scientific than Aristotle’s or Mill’s analysis of the Syllogism (or Mediate Inference).