[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c8.s9.1 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s9.1 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s9.1 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s9.1) Īśvaravāda (theory of the existence of God) is one of the most contentious issues that has always provoked vigorous fights not only between the non-believers and the believers, but amongst the theistic schools as well. The proponents of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika schools claimed that unknown can be known with the apparatus of facts that are known. They developed such apparatus through the process of logic based on \*anumāna\* (inference). The followers of Advaita Vedānta vehemently opposed any move to make the Supreme Being a subject of inference. - [Previous: c8.s8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s8.3) - [Next: c8.s9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s9.2) - [Up: c8.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s9.1) · Pramāṇa