Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s3.1
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s3.1
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c5.s3.1
A thorough understanding of the *pūrva-pakṣa* (the prima facie view) is required to start a *vāda*.²⁶ There are philosophers who could present the opponent’s view with such exact comprehension that we can restore some of the lost philosophical systems only through the debate that was carried on in their refutation.