Anityasama, Anitya-sama: 6 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAnityasama (अनित्यसम).—a sophism or fallacious reasoning which generalizes what it is exceptional (as anityatvam).
Derivable forms: anityasamaḥ (अनित्यसमः).
Anityasama is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anitya and sama (सम).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnityasama (अनित्यसम).—m.
(-maḥ) Arguing by illustration, not by logical rule. E. anitya unusual, and sama same.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnityasama (अनित्यसम):—[=a-nitya-sama] [from a-nitya] m. sophism, consisting in generalizing what is exceptional (as perishableness).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnityasama (अनित्यसम):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f.
(-maḥ-mā) (In the Nyāya philosophy.) Wrongly generalizing the predicament of perishableness i. e. a sophism on perishableness; viz. arguing perishableness from the reason that every thing is perishable because it shares in some qualities with other things which are perishable. E. anitya and sama (in the sense of jāti, sophism); the masc. form of this word is explained according to some, by the ellipsis of pratiṣedha or contradiction, as a Sūtra in the Nyāya treating on a sophism is always followed by another containing the refutation; or, according to others, by the ellipsis of vikalpa (in the sense of vividhaḥ kalpaḥ i. e. prakāraḥ or variousness), there being various sophisms, viz. twenty-four; or according to others, by the ellipsis of prayoga i. e. a (logical) proceeding which likens or produces the plausibility of perishableness; or the word is taken as a [bahuvrihi compound] with the ellipsis of prayoga i. e. a logical proceeding in which perishableness is likened (viz. made plausible).— As a feminine, ºsamā is taken in the sense of jāti, sophism.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnityasama (अनित्यसम):—[a-nitya-sama] (maḥ) 1. m. Arguing by illustration, not by logic.
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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: Anitya, Cama, Sama.
Starts with: Anityasamaprakarana, Anityasamasa.
Full-text: Anityasamaprakarana, Anutpattisama, Anupalabdhisama, Apraptisama, Apakarshasama.
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