[Advaita-l] Falsifiability, “hypothesis—->experiment——->conclusion”

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Raghav ji,

That is the deductive method of reasoning. The Indian nyAya system uses the
inductive method.


Regards
Venkatraghavan

On Sat, 4 Oct 2025, 00:42 Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> A recent discussion with a friend was on whether Indian nyAya or other IKS
> had the ideas or showed application of -
> 1. Hypothesis leading to experiment which in turns leads to confirmation or
> refutation of the hypothesis.
> 2. Any concept equivalent to falsifiability (the principle that a
> scientific statement or theory must be capable of being disproven through
> evidence or experimentation to be considered scientifically valid)
>
> Or, are they purely western innovations in logic.
>
> My understanding is that the ideas of vyabhicArI hetus or viparIta
> dRShTAntas etc cover such scenarios, but I request our learned members if a
> more accurate description is possible whether these ideas are already
> present in nyAya etc.
>
> Thank you
> Om
>
> Raghav
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