Question

Early Hindu and Buddhist philosophers’ analyses of these concepts often drew on the work of the grammarian Pāṇini’s exploration of the relation between verb and noun. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these concepts. Their division into substrate, non-substrate, and instrumental varieties in the Manual of Reason is often compared to the western division of these concepts into material, formal, efficient, and final.
ANSWER: causes
[10h] Annambhaṭṭa wrote the Manual of Reason to expound the views of this school’s modern “Navya” variant. This astika school’s sutra was written by Akṣapāda Gautama, and it primarily focuses on logic and epistemology.
ANSWER: Nyāya [accept Navya-Nyāya]
[10e] Thinkers of the Nyāya school enumerated the pramanas, or ways of acquiring this concept, such as through experience and inference. Plato’s Theatetus defined this concept as “justified true belief.”
ANSWER: knowledge
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Berkeley BBerkeley A1001020
Stanford ABerkeley C1001020
WaterlooMcDouble West-Carleton1001020
Ottawa COttawa A001010
Toronto Ray of Sun in the SkyOttawa B10101030
I will play anything with a buzzer in front of meSGV Capital1001020
BirminghamBristol1001020
Cambridge BCambridge A1001020
EdinburghDurham10101030
Imperial AImperial B1001020
OxfordWarwick1001020
Chicago AIndiana10101030
Notre Dame BChicago B001010
Purdue AIllinois B1001020
VanderbiltNotre Dame A1001020
Illinois APurdue B1001020
Cornell RRIT1001020
SIUEMissouri A001010
WUSTL XYZSquidward Community College001010