Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET December 2022 (23.02.2023) Shift-I
There is smoke on the distant hill. Since smoke is always accompanied by fire, the hill must have fire too. According to the classical Indian school of logic, which of the terms corresponds to the Sadhya, that is the major term, in the above argument?
AHill
BFire ✓ Correct
CSmoke
DSmoky hill
Correct answer: (B) Fire — The Sadhya is fire, so the answer is fire.
Explanation
★The Sadhya is fire, so the answer is fire.
★In Nyaya inference, the Sadhya is what is to be proved about the subject.
★Here we set out to prove that the hill has fire.
★So fire is the property being established.
★That makes fire the Sadhya, or major term.
★The hill is the Paksha and smoke is the reason, or Hetu.
★So the answer is fire.
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