Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET December 2021 June 2022 (14.10.2022) Shift-II
When an inference is based not on causation but on the uniformity of co-existence, what is it called according to the classical Indian school of logic?
AKevalanvayi
BSamanyatodrsta ✓ Correct
CPurvavat
DSesavat
Correct answer: (B) Samanyatodrsta — The answer is samanyatodrsta.
Explanation
★The answer is samanyatodrsta.
★This inference rests on two things being generally observed together.
★It does not depend on one causing the other.
★So an inference from mere uniform co-existence is samanyatodrsta.
★Purvavat and sesavat inferences rest on causal relations.
★Kevalanvayi refers to a term always positively related, which is different.
★So the answer is samanyatodrsta.
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