Apraptisama, Aprāptisama, Aprāptisamā, Aprapti-sama: 3 definitions
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Buddhist philosophy
Source: Google Books: A History of Indian Logic (Buddhist Philosophy)Aprāptisamā (अप्राप्तिसमा) or simply Aprāpti refers to “balancing the mutual absence” 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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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAprāptisama (अप्राप्तिसम):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f.
(-maḥ-mā) (In the Nyāya philosophy.) One of the two sophisms on the irrelevancy of the notion ‘cause’; viz. arguing that if a cause is stated the characteristics of which cannot be proved—as by saying that the Śyena sacrifice inflicts pain on enemies—, such characteristics prevent a cause from proving the effect, i. e. from being a valid cause; (‘yadi cāprāptaṃ liṅgaṃ sādhyabuddhiṃ janayati sādhyābhāvabuddhimeva kiṃ tena na janayet’); the refutation is: that such a cause is nevertheless valid, since it is an ideal cause, mentioned in the Veda.—For the other sophism on the irrelevancy of cause see prāptisama. E. aprāpti and sama. (For the gender of this word and the ellipsis required to explain it, see the etym. 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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Partial matches: Aprapti, Cama, Sama.
Full-text: Anishtapadana, Aprapti, Jati.
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