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The '''three modes''' (Tib. [[ཚུལ་གསུམ་]]; [[Wyl.]] ''tshul gsum'') of a logical argument are as follows:
The '''three modes''' (Skt. ''trairūpya''; Tib. [[ཚུལ་གསུམ་]]; ''tsul sum'', [[Wyl.]] ''tshul gsum'') of a logical argument are as follows:


#the reason must be a feature of the subject (''pakṣadharma''; [[ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་]], ''phyogs chos'')
#the reason must be a feature of the subject (Skt. ''pakṣadharma''; Tib. [[ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་]], Wyl. ''phyogs chos'')
#there must be positive logical pervasion (or positive concomitance or entailment) (''anvayavyāpti''; [[རྗེས་ཁྱབ་]], ''rjes khyab'')
#there must be positive logical pervasion (or positive concomitance or entailment) (Skt. ''anvayavyāpti''; Tib. [[རྗེས་ཁྱབ་]], Wyl. ''rjes khyab'')
#there must be negative logical pervasion (or negative concomitance) (''vyatirekavyāpti''; [[ལྡོག་ཁྱབ་]], ''ldog khyab'')
#there must be negative logical pervasion (or negative concomitance) (Skt. ''vyatirekavyāpti''; Tib. [[ལྡོག་ཁྱབ་]], Wyl. ''ldog khyab'')


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==

Latest revision as of 06:29, 3 May 2018

The three modes (Skt. trairūpya; Tib. ཚུལ་གསུམ་; tsul sum, Wyl. tshul gsum) of a logical argument are as follows:

  1. the reason must be a feature of the subject (Skt. pakṣadharma; Tib. ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་, Wyl. phyogs chos)
  2. there must be positive logical pervasion (or positive concomitance or entailment) (Skt. anvayavyāpti; Tib. རྗེས་ཁྱབ་, Wyl. rjes khyab)
  3. there must be negative logical pervasion (or negative concomitance) (Skt. vyatirekavyāpti; Tib. ལྡོག་ཁྱབ་, Wyl. ldog khyab)

Alternative Translations

  • Threefold criteria