Apakarshasama, Apakarṣasama, Apakarsha-sama, Apakarṣasamā: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Apakarṣasama and Apakarṣasamā can be transliterated into English as Apakarsasama or Apakarshasama, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Buddhist philosophy
Source: Google Books: A History of Indian Logic (Buddhist Philosophy)Apakarṣasamā (अपकर्षसमा) or simply Apakarṣa refers to “balancing a deficit” and represents one of the various kinds of Jāti (“analogue” or “far-fetched analogy”) (in debate), according to Upāyakauśalyahṛdaya, an ancient work on the art of debate composed by Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna.
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Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryApakarṣasama (अपकर्षसम).—a sort of fallacy; e. g. sound has not the quality of shape, as a jar, so sound and a jar have no qualities in common.
Derivable forms: apakarṣasamaḥ (अपकर्षसमः).
Apakarṣasama is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms apakarṣa and sama (सम).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryApakarṣasama (अपकर्षसम):—[=apa-karṣa-sama] [from apa-karṣa > apa-kṛṣ] mf(ā) a sophism in the Nyāya (e.g. ‘sound has not the quality of shape as a jar has, therefore sound and a jar have no qualities in common’).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryApakarṣasama (अपकर्षसम):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f.
(-maḥ-mā) (In the Nyāya philosophy.) The sophism of the non-existence of qualities; viz. arguing, that because two things have one quality not in common, they will have none in common; e. g. sound and a jar being both artificially produced are perishable; now the sophism in question would consist in concluding: that because sound has not the quality of shape, which belongs to jar, or because a jar does not refer to the sense of hearing as sound does, sound and jar are neither artificially produced nor perishable. E. apakarṣa and sama. (With respect to the gender of this word and the ellipsis required to explain it, see the E. of anityasama.)
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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