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Nothing but Gold. Complexities in Terms of Non-difference and Identity. Part 3. Permanence, Properties Plexuses and Subtleties in Mutual Exclusion
This paper investigates Vācaspati Miśra’s remarkably complex argumentative architecture in support of non-difference by means of a microsimulation...
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The Conundrum of Kundakunda’s Status in the Digambara Tradition
Kundakunda’s handling of several basic ideas cannot be omitted when one deals with the following concepts in Jaina philosophy: 1. Sy āt/siya, syādvāda ...
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The Grammatical Philosophy on Vijñāna and Vijñapti in Yogācāra
The traditional Buddhist Sanskrit term vijñāna cannot be given the meaning “consciousness” in accordance with the grammatical rules of Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī...
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Land Ethics Among the Traditional Annangs of Southern Nigeria: Traditional Environmental Ethics, Challenging Contemporary Hostilities Towards Our planet
Ethics as a normative science concerns what is proper or improper in human conduct. When this is applied to what ought to be people’s relationship...
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A Panenmentalist Reconsideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles
If we consider any two entities (such as the two spheres in Max Black’s well-known thought-experiment) as individual possibilities, pure or actual,...
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Āgama as Pramāṇa in Kashmir Śaivism
The epistemological structure of the non-dual Trika Śaiva philosophy mainly represented by Utpaladeva (fl. c. 925–975 CE) and Abhinavagupta (fl. c....
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Āgama as Pramāṇa in Kashmir Śaivism
The epistemological structure of the non-dual Trika Śaiva philosophy mainly represented by Utpaladeva (fl. c. 925–975 CE) and Abhinavagupta (fl. c....
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Āgama as Pramāṇa in Kashmir Śaivism
The epistemological structure of the non-dual Trika Śaiva philosophy mainly represented by Utpaladeva (fl. c. 925–975 CE) and Abhinavagupta (fl. c....
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The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay’s Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals
Dan Shechtman was the first to discover an actual quasicrystal (on April 8, 1982). As early as 1981, about 1 year before Shechtman’s discovery of an...
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Fragments from the Ājīvikas
The paper examines available references to the Ājīvikas that are often identified by scholars, notably by Basham (1951), as genuine quotations from...
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A Grammarian’s View of Negation: Nāgeśa’s Paramalaghumañjūs.ā on Nañartha
The theory of negation developed in the grammatical-philosophical system of later Vyākaraṇa remains almost entirely unstudied, despite its close...
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Eka-elements as chemical pure possibilities
From Mendeleev’s time on, the Periodic Table has been an attempt to exhaust all the chemical possibilities of the elements and their interactions,...
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Nothing but Gold: Complexities in terms of Non-difference and Identity. Part 2. Contrasting Equivalence, Equality, Identity, and Non-difference
The present paper is a continuation of a previous one by the same title, the content of which faced the issue concerning the relations of coreference...
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Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium
We re-examine the history of the element “nipponium” discovered by a Japanese chemist Masataka Ogawa in 1908. Since 1996 H.K. Yoshihara has made...
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The Opponent: Jain Logicians Reacting to Dharmakīrti’s Theory of Inference
The goal of this chapter is to present the contribution made by Jaina philosophers in the conception of inference in the classical paradigm of...
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The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements
The exploration of chemical periodicity over the past 250 years led to the development of the Periodic System of Elements and demonstrates the value...
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Jayarāśi Bhaṭṭa: A Sceptic or Materialist?
The paper examines the Tattvôpaplava-siṁha of Jayarāśi Bhaṭṭa, and presents an analysis of his positive arguments that can be traced in the work....
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The Nyāya on Logical Thought
In this chapter, I shall emphasize the following features of the Nyāya logical thought: (1) some of the uses of Occam’s razor or the principle of...
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From telluric helix to telluric remix
The first attempt to represent the Periodic system graphically was the Telluric Helix ( Vis Tellurique ) presented in 1862 by Alexandre-Emile Béguyer...
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Naming the Seventh Consciousness in Yogācāra
The Yogācāra School presents the seventh consciousness as the internal mental faculty of the sixth consciousness. According to the Hīnayāna...