Introducing pakṣaṭā as a causal condition conflates the epistemic conditions for inference with the psychological conditions for a cognizer's attention, which are categorically distinct in Nyāya metaphysics.
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Nyāya(as the philosophical tradition being discussed)
An ancient Indian school of philosophy that developed detailed rules for logical reasoning and argumentation, similar to how Western philosophy has formal logic.
inference(Nyāya epistemology)
A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known
metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
pakṣaṭā(Distinguished from pakṣadharmatā, which is the condition that the locus possesses the inferential sign)
The condition that the inferrer either does not already know the conclusion or has a special desire to re-establish it inferentially; an auxiliary causal factor for inference
psychological conditions(as used in philosophy of mind)
The mental or cognitive factors that affect how a person thinks, perceives, or pays attention.