The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus c10.75

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c10.75

The Buddhist objects: In Nature everything is connected with everything else. Hence, if there were no *nexus* of causality between antecedent and consequent, everything might follow from everything else. The Nyáya replies: You admit uniformities (of co-existence, etc.) other than causal; so you confess that a natural fixed order can exist without the causal *nexus*....

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