Author Affiliations: Department of Linguistics, McGill University, 1085 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A7; Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA
In the svārthānumāna chapter of his Pramāṇavārttika, the Buddhist philosopher Dharmakīrti presented a defense of his claim that legitimate inference must rest on a metaphysical basis if it is to be immune from the risks ordinarily involved in inducing general principles from a finite number of observations. Even if one repeatedly observes that x occurs with y and never observes y in the absence of x, there is no guarantee, on the basis of observation alone, that one will never observe y in the absence of x at some point in the future. To provide such a guarantee, claims Dharmakīrti, one must know that there is a causal connection between x and y such that there is no possibility of y occurring in the absence of x. In the course of defending this central claim, Dharmakīrti ponders how one can know that there is a causal relationship of the kind necessary to guarantee a proposition of the form "Every y occurs with an x." He also dismisses an interpretation of his predecessor Dignāga whereby Dignāga would be claiming non-observation of y in the absence of x is sufficient to warrant to the claim that no y occurs without x. The present article consists of a translation of kārikās 11—38 of Pramānavārttikam, svārthānumānaparicchedaḥ along with Dharmakīrti's own prose commentary. The translators have also provided an English commentary, which includes a detailed introduction to the central issues in the translated text and their history in the literature before Dharmakīrti.
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Introduction 336 Translation of Dharmakırti’s Verses 336 Translation of Dharmakırti’s Own Commentary on his Explanation of Inference for One’s Own Sake 338 PV 11 338 PV 12 339 PV 13 340 PV 14 341 PV 15 341 PV 16 341 PV 17 342 PV 18 342 PV 19 344 PV 19ab 344 PV 19c 344 PV 19d 345 PV 20ab 345 PV 20cd 345 PV 21 346 PV 22 347 PV 23ac 348 PV 23cd 348 PV 24 348 PV 25 348 PV 26 348 A.27ac 348 PV 27cd 349 PV 28 349 PV 29ab 351 PV 29cd 351 PV 30 351 PV 31 351 PV 32 351 PV 33ab 352 PV 33cd 353 PV 34ab 353 PV 34cd 353 PV 35 354 PV 36 355 PV 37 355 PV 38 355 Comments by Gillon and Hayes on Dharmakırti’s Commentary on his Explanation of Inference for One’s Own Sake 356 Background Information 356 Comments on Passages PVSV 11.1 Through 38.2 366 Notes to PVSV 11.1 366 Notes to PV 12.1 367 Notes to PVSV 12.2 368 Notes to PVSV 12.3 370 Notes to PVSV 12.4 372 Notes to PVSV 12.5. 373 Notes to PV 13 373 Notes to PV 14 373 Notes to PV 15.1 374 Notes to PV 16.1 375 Notes to PVSV 16.2 375 Notes to PVSV 16.2 375 Notes to PVSV 16.3 375 Notes to PVSV 16.4 375 Notes to PV 17.1 376 Notes to PV 17.2 376 Notes to PVSV 18.1 376 Notes to PVSV 18.2 377 Notes to PVSV 18.3 377 Notes to PVSV 18.4 378 Notes to PVSV 18.5 378 Notes to PVSV 18.6 378 Notes to PVSV 18.7 379 Notes to PVSV 19.1 379 Notes to PVSV 19.2 380 Notes to PVSV 20.1 381 Notes to PVSV 20.2 381 Notes to PVSV 20.3 382 Notes to PVSV 20.4 382 Notes to PVSV 20.5 383 Notes to PVSV 20.6 383 Notes to PVSV 21.1 383 Notes to PVSV 21.2 384 Notes to PV 22 386 Notes to PVSV 22.1 386 Notes to PVSV 22.2 386 Notes to PVSV 22.3 387 Notes to PVSV 22.4 387 Notes to PVSV 23.1 388 Notes to PVSV 23.2 389 Notes to PVSV 25.1 389 Notes to PVSV 26–27 390 Notes to PVSV 28.1 391 Notes to PVSV 28.2 391 Notes to PVSV 28.4 391 Notes to PV 29–30 392 Notes to PV 31–32 393 Notes to PVSV 33.1 393 Notes to PVSV 33.2 395 Notes to PVSV 33.3 396 Notes to PVSV 33.4–5 396 Notes to PV 34.1 397 Notes to PV 34.2 398 Notes to PV 34.3 399 Notes to PV 34.4 399 Notes to PV 35.1 400 Notes to PV 35.2 401 Notes to PV 35.3 401 Notes to PV 37.2 401 Notes to PV 37.3 401 Notes to PV 37.4 402 Notes to PV 38 402 Notes to PV 38.2 402
