Which of the following is not correct with reference to anumana according to classical Indian school of logic?

Which of the following is not correct with reference to anumana according to classical Indian school of logic? Correct Answer Hetu is the minor term

Logic: A particular way of thinking, especially one that is reasonable and based on good judgment.

• In Indian Logic, Pramana is Valid means of knowledge.
• Real Knowledge which is true.
• Pramana is a theory of knowledge and encompasses one or more reliable and valid means by which human beings gain accurate and true knowledge.
• There are Six types of Pramana: Pratyaksha, Anumana, Upamana, Arthapati, Anupalabdhi, Sabda.

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Anumana (Inference):

• Anu means; “after”, Mana means; “Knowledge”.
• So, Anumana means knowledge based on prior knowledge.
• Inference occupies a central place in the Hindu school of logic (Nyaya).
• Some Terms, which explains Anumana in a better way. There are three in it.
• Let’s take the following example: The hill is fiery. Because the hill is smoky.
• Whatever has fire has smoked. In the above example, we pass from the perception of smoke in the hill to the knowledge of the existence of fire in it on the basis of our previous knowledge of the universal relation between smoke and fire.

• The character which is inferred (Fire) is called Sadhya - Major Term, the mark on the strength of which the character is inferred is the hetu – Middle Term (smoke); while the subject where the character is inferred is paksa – Minor Term (Hill).
• Three terms are involved in this inference— Hetu, Paksa, Sadhya.
• In the above-mentioned example; three points are to be noted.

• There is the perception of a mark or reason (hetu), (e.g., smoke) in a subject (hill).
•  There is a recollection of the relation of invariable concomitance between smoke and fire as we have observed in the past.
• There is the inference of the existence of an unperceived object (e.g., fire) in the subject (hill)

Note: when one sees smoke on a distant hill, one remembers one’s experience of the universal (invariable) concomitance, i.e. Vyapti, between smoke and fire and concludes that there is fire on the distant hill.

So, Hetu is not the minor term, it is middle term.