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Download Solution PDFWhich of the five essential characteristics of the middle term (hetu) is violated when an inference involves a non-inferentially contradicted middle?
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Download Solution PDF- A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument. Fallacies are commonly divided into "formal" and "informal".
- A formal fallacy can be expressed neatly in a standard system of logic, such as propositional logic, while an informal fallacy originates in an error in reasoning other than an improper logical form. Arguments containing informal fallacies may be formally valid, but still fallacious. The fallacy concerning the middle tema own as hetvabhasa.
- If the middle term does not provide sufficient ground to justify the conclusion, then hetvabhasa is committed. Hetvabhasa thus signifies fallacious reasoning. Five such material fallacies are possible. Those are Savyabhicara or the irregular Virudha or the contradictory middle, Satapratipaksa or the inferentially contradicted middle. Asidha or the unproved middle, and Badhita or the non-inferentially contradicted middle.
Thus the correct answer is option 2
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