According to the classical Indian school of logic (Nyaya), which fallacy is committed in the following argument: 'Anything that is thinkable is nameable because it is thinkable'?
AAsadharana ✓ Correct
BSadharana
CAsrayasiddha
DSvarupasiddha
Correct answer: (A) Asadharana
Explanation
The reason is asadharana, an uncommon middle term found only in the subject.
'Thinkable' is offered to prove that a thing is nameable.
But being thinkable belongs to the subject alone and to nothing outside it.
A reason absent from all similar and dissimilar cases yields no invariable concomitance.
Such a too-narrow, inconclusive reason is the asadharana anaikantika hetu.
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