The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2333 page)
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Har
a(1125–80 CE).
A Hindu philosopher of the
Ved
nta
tradition and arguably the greatest Indian logician. His main work is the
Kha
anakha
akh
dya
, in which he rejects the
pram
a
(means of knowing) system as a way of gaining knowledge. To refute his opponents—he employed the
vita
da
method of argument which refutes a thesis (
pratijñ
) by
reductio ad absurdum
, but offers no positive counter-thesis. This parallels the
prasa
ga
method of the Buddhist
Nag
rjuna
.
A Hindu philosopher of the
Ved
ntatradition and arguably the greatest Indian logician. His main work is the
Kha
anakhaakhdya, in which he rejects the
pram
a(means of knowing) system as a way of gaining knowledge. To refute his opponents—he employed the
vita
damethod of argument which refutes a thesis (
pratijñ
) byreductio ad absurdum
, but offers no positive counter-thesis. This parallels the
prasa
gamethod of the Buddhist
Nag
rjuna.
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