Week 6 Nyaya-Vaisesika: The Metaphysics of Properties and Property-bearers

Categories

SubstanceQualityActionUniversalParticularityInherence

TYPEEarth (hv subspecies, , corporeal etc.; material, used for bodies & perceptible)Water (hv subspecies , corporeal etc.; material)Light/Fire (hv subspecies , corporeal etc.; material)Air/wind (hv subspecies , corporeal etc.; material...)Ether (largest, most common vessel 4 corporeal bodies; material)TimeSpaceSelf (alt. soul; hv subspecies)Mind (hv subspecies , corporeal etc.)Colour; Taste; OdourTouch; NumberDimensionSeparatenessConjunctionDisjunctionDistanceProximityIntellect; Pleasure; Pain; AversionEffortGravityFluidity; ViscidityFaculty (speed)Dharma& adharma(two fold invisible force)Throwing upThrowing downContractingExpandingGoingHigher: being, is the most common, produces complete cognitions Lower:substance & other categories less common, produce inclusive, exclusive & individual cognitions WR: essential vs accidentalWR: Quality & its substanceAction & the moving substanceUniversal & its instanceParticularity & its eternal substanceWhole & its partsLeads to idea of this in that; what underpins all the types above

NOTESIdentified in thesutra through general and specific names; bring about E within tm/s, have qual & r with ult. individualities17 directly mentioned insutra; 7 more further added; 24 totalEvery action (e.g. evacuating, quivering, rising) falls into a typea.k.a. generality community; two kindsLocated within ultimate substances; cause ultimate distinctions between the substancesa.k.a. intimate union, coming together, inseparability; relationship between insep things & container & contained

SimilaritiesAll: properties of being-ness, predictability, & being able to be known; being dependent (except ult. substances)~relationship with being, have universals & instances+being an effect, non-eternal & are caused - exist in/as substance (except ult.)All: properties of being-ness, predictability, & being able to be known; being dependent*Devoid of quality & motion~relationship with being, have universals & instances+being an effect, non-eternal & are caused- exist in/as substanceAll: properties of being-ness, predictability, & being able to be known; being dependent*Devoid of quality & motion~relationship with being, have universals & instances+being an effect, non-eternal & are caused- exist in/as substanceAll: properties of being-ness, predictability, & being able to be known; being dependent*Devoid of quality & motion#exist in themselves, not an E or cause, not eternal, cant be described as thing, existence identified through intellectAll: properties of being-ness, predictability, & being able to be known; being dependent*Devoid of quality & motion#exist in themselves, not an E or cause, not eternal, cant be described as thing, existence identified through intellectAll: properties of being-ness, predictability, & being able to be known; being dependent*Devoid of quality & motion#exist in themselves, not an E or cause, not eternal, cant be described as thing, existence identified through intellect

DissimilaritiesNo *Devoid of quality & motionNo #exist in themselves, not an E or cause, not eternal, cant be described as thing, existence identified through intellectNo #exist in themselves, not an E or cause, not eternal, cant be described as thing, existence identified through intellectNo #exist in themselves, not an E or cause, not eternal, cant be described as thing, existence identified through intellectNo ~relationship with being, have universals & instancesNo +being an effect, non-eternal & are causedNo - exist in/as substanceNo ~relationship with being, have universals & instancesNo +being an effect, non-eternal & are causedNo - exist in/as substanceNo ~relationship with being, have universals & instancesNo +being an effect, non-eternal & are causedNo - exist in/as substance