The exhaustive explications on jāti-s (sophisticated ripostes) and their seemingly chaotic arrangement in early Indian philosophical texts arouses an expectation for a systematic taxonomy or typology. Such taxonomy would enormously increase the heuristic value of the list of jāti-s. The present article aims to reveal some interpretational problems relevant to the understanding of the jāti-s' historical development, as well as the theoretical implications of their typology. Focusing historically on the early texts of debate manuals of Nyāya and Buddhist circles, this article will excavate and explicate the vague and the obvious attempts to establish a typology of jāti-s. Given that Dhiṅnāga was the philosopher who shifted the history of Indian philosophy into the era of macro theory by integrating ontology and epistemology into a general system, the minimal changes of the order of the jāti-s in the list given in the Pramāṇasamuccaya, in contrast to the one found in the Nyāyamukha, will be interpreted as a paradigm shift. The rearrangement of the jāti list in the Pramāṅasamuccaya represents the paradigm shift from the debate (vāda) manual to the epistemological (pramāṇa) treatise, confirming Frauwallner's ideas regarding the development of Diṅnāga's thought.
目次
Taxonomy of Fallacies Around Jāti-s 615 Attitudes Toward the Taxonomy of Jāti-s 616 Vague Typology: Pairing 619 Vague Typology: Subgrouping 620 Jāti-s as Fallacies 624 Vague Typology and Expansion of Jāti-s 626 Paradigm Shift in the Pramāṇasamuccya Reflected in the List of Jāti-s 629
