anaikāntika

anaikāntika mfn. (-kaḥ-kī-kaṃ) Unsteady, variable, having many objects or purposes.

E. aneka, anta end, and ṭhak aff.

anaikāntika Tatpur. m. f. n. (-kaḥ-kā-kam) (In Philosophy.)

Indeterminate, going astray, non-absolute.--In the Nyāya

and Vaiśeṣika philosophies a quality which constitutes one

of the five hetvābhāsa (q. v.) or semblances of reason; in the

Nyāya it is also called savyabhicāra. A ‘semblance of reason’

‘goes astray’ or is ‘indeterminate’, if the argument is either

too general (sādhāraṇa) i. e. if it may be applied to the sub-

ject of conclusion and to an opposite one; e. g. ‘sound is

eternal, because it is not the object of touch’ or ‘the hearth

smokes, because it is fiery’; or not general enough (asā-

dhāraṇa) i. e. if it is excluded from either; e. g. ‘sound is

eternal because it has the properties of sound’; or non-ex-

clusive (anupasaṃhārin) i. e. if the major may be predicated

of any other notion; e. g. ‘every thing is eternal because

it can be measured’ or ‘every thing can be named because

it can be inferred’. E. a neg. and aikāntika.

An-aikāntika, as, ī, am, unsteady, variable, hav-

ing many objects or purposes. —Anaikāntika-tva,

am, n. unsteadiness, uncertainty.

an-aikāntika mfn. unsteady, variable, having many objects or purposes

an-aikāntika n. (in Vaiśeṣika phil.) the fallacy of undistributed middle.

anaikāntika

mfn. (-kaḥ-kī-kaṃ) Unsteady, variable, having many objects or
purposes.

E. aneka, anta end, and ṭhak aff.

anaikāntika a. (kī f.) 1 Unsteady, uncertain; not to the point, not very important; bhṛtyo'bhṛtya iti ˚kametat Pt.1. -2 (in Logic) Name of one of the five main divisions of hetvābhāsa (fallacies,) otherwise called savyabhicāra. It is of three kinds :- (a) sādhāraṇa, where the hetu is found both in the samakṣa and vipakṣa, the argument being therefore too general. (b) asādhāraṇa where the hetu is in the pakṣa alone, the argument being not general enough. (c) anupasaṃhārī which embraces every known thing in the pakṣa, the argument being non-conclusive.

an-aikāntika- a. non absolu; accessoire.

anaikāntika Adj. so und auch anders sein könnend. Davon Nom.abstr. °tva n. NYĀYAS. 5,1,22.

anaikāntika pu0 ekāntaṃ niyataṃ vyāpnoti ekānta + ṭhak
ekānto niyamo vyāptirastyasya ṭhan svārthe aṇ vā na0 ta0 .
anekāntaśabdārthe anekāntaśabde'dhikaṃ dṛśyam “trighā'naikā-
ntiko mata” bhāṣā0 . aikāntiko niścitarūpastadbhinne tri0