The Doctrine of Māyāvāda All over Vedic texts, the material nature or prakriti is also termed as māyā, which literally means—“that which is not”. Pursuant to this, there is a doctrine called Māyāvāda, which says that the world doesn’t exist. It is literally like a “hallucination”, which has no objective […]
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The Nyāya Conception of a Scientific Theory
Below is the translation and commentary on some of the Nyāya Sutras, which describe the nature of a scientific theory as comprised of four aspects. The first aspect represents the purpose of the system; the second, the functional parts that execute this purpose; the third, a mechanism of control that […]