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Higher Study | Logical Reasoning | Pramanas

Devdatta is fat and he does not eat during the day. Therefore, Devadatta is eating during the night. The above example, in classical Indian School of Logic, is a case of:
Match List I with List II List I List II  A.  SāmānyalakṣaṇaPratyakṣa  I.  Intuitive perception   of all objects- past,   distant and future   due to supernormal   powers generated   by meditation  B.  JñānaLakṣana Pratyakṣa  II.  When objects are   not actually present   to sense but are   conveyed to it   through a special   medium  C.  YogajPratyakṣa  III.  Perception of an   object which is in   contact with sense   through previous   knowledge of itself  D.  AlaukikaPratyakṣa  IV.  The perception of a   whole class of   objects through a   generic property Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
When a middle term does not go further than producing a state of mental oscillation between two opposite views, the case is known as
When the middle term is related to a minor term that stands not for any definite individual or class of individuals, but indefinitely for all objects is known as
Which kind of inference is illustrated when one argues that sound must be a quality because it cannot be a substance or an activity or a relation and so on?
Given below are two statements : Statement I:- The fallacy of contradictory middle (viruddha) occurs in an argument when the middle term is found both where the major is found and where it is not found. Statement II :- The fallacy of contradictory middle (viruddha) is committed in an argument when the middle term is found only where major term is absent. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
When an unperceived fact is supposed in order to resolve an apparent contradiction in the presented phenomenon, which one of the following pramaṇas is employed according to Advaitins?
Which of the following is not a necessary step when you present an argument based on inference before the others according to the Classical Indian School of Logic?
Given below are two statements  Statement I: An inference is called kevala̅nvayi when it is based on a middle term, which is only positively related to the major term.  Statement II: In Kevala̅nvayi, the knowledge of vya̅pti between the middle and major terms is arrived at only through the method of agreement in presence.  In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below   
Which of the following types of inference is used when one infers rainfall on the hills from floods?
"Wherever there is smoke, fire is also present". Which of the following statements is true with reference to the above statement according to Nya̅ya philosophy? (A) Smoke cannot exist without fire also being present there  (B) Fire causes smoke (C) Universal fireness causes universal smokeness  (D) It asserts that there is a relation of concommitance between smoke and fire  Choose the correct answer from the options given below :  
Match List I with List II.   List I  List II Steps of Argument Propositions (A) Affirmation of the thesis as proven (I) Wherever there is smoke, there is fire as in the kitchen (B) Statement of reason (II) There is fire on the hill (C) Giving an example of underlying rule (III) Therefore there is fire on the hill (D) Statement of thesis to be established (IV) Because there is smoke  
A perception where we do not have the knowledge of an object characterized by any predicate but an apprehension of some unrelated elements is called as?
Consider the example of Anumana given below: A) The mountain is fiery B) Because it has smoke C) Wherever there is smoke, there is fire. Which one of the following expresses Vyapti (relation of invariable concomitance)?
Given below are two statements : ‘The water of the pond is muddy. It must have rained last night.' What kind of Anumana (inference) has been used in the above statements. Choose the correct option from the following : (A) Sesavat anumana (B) Comparison (C) Purvovat anumana (D) Both (A) and (B) Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
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