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    Supports→'Everything in the world' cannot serve as the locus of the inference for God's existence

    Kumārila Bhaṭṭa's Mīmāṃsā critique of Nyāya theology argued that invoking 'the world' as a unified inferential locus commits the fallacy of anaikāntika, since the locus is not homogeneous with respect to the reason property.

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    Homogeneous(describing whether situations are uniform or varied)
    All the same throughout, with no variation in quality or type.
    Kumārila Bhaṭṭa(as the main philosopher discussed in this statement)
    An Indian philosopher from around the 7th century who defended Hindu philosophy against Buddhist criticisms, particularly about the nature of the self and how we know things.
    Mīmāṃsā
    A Hindu philosophical school whose stated goal is to interpret the statements of the Vedas and provide specific guidance to Hindus for performing the rituals and sacrifices the Vedas enjoin.
    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.
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    (the type of logical fallacy Kumārila claims Nyāya commits)
    A Sanskrit term for a specific logical error where your reasoning doesn't work because your evidence could support opposite conclusions equally well.
    inferential locus(the logical foundation that Kumārila claims is flawed)
    The specific thing or situation you're talking about when you're trying to prove something through logical reasoning.
    reason property(what fails to match properly across the locus in this logical error)
    The specific characteristic or evidence you're using to make your logical argument work.
    theology(Hobbes 1655, 1.8)
    The doctrine about the nature and attributes of the eternal, ungenerable, and incomprehensible God, in whom no composition and no division can be established and no generation can be understood

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