According to the Classical Indian School of Logic (Nyaya), which fallacy is committed in the following statement: 'The sky rose is fragrant, because it is a rose like the rose on the earth'?
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DAshraya-siddha ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Ashraya-siddha
Explanation
The sky-rose argument commits the ashraya-siddha (unreal locus) fallacy.
The subject, a rose growing in the sky, does not exist at all.
An inference needs a real locus in which the reason can reside.
With no such locus present, the reason has nowhere to operate.
A reason resting on a wholly non-existent subject is ashrayasiddha.
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