Nyayan.

1789 Asiatick Researches 1 352 Of the Philosophical Schools it will be sufficient here to remark, that the first Nyáya seems analogous to the Peripatetick.

1845 Amer. Whig. Rev. May 520 Three of the council [of learned Brahmins] must be skilled in the Vedas; one, in the Nyaya, or logical philosophy, and one in the Vedanta, or mystical.

1877 M. Williams Hinduism 193 The Sānkhya philosophy, founded by a sage named Kapila, though probably prior in date, is generally studied next to the Nyāya, and is more categorically dualistic.

1911 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 21 467 A Nyaya aphorism declares that ‘our actions, though apparently disappearing, remain, unperceived, and reappear in their effects as tendencies’.

1928 A. B. Keith Hist. Sanskrit Lit. 409 A number of popular illustrations become hardened into regular use, and figure as Nyāyas.

1941 K. Shridharani My India, my Amer. ix. 258 The earlier Nyaya, the Nyaya of Gautama, leaned heavily upon reasoning by analogy, the weakest type of logical reasoning, and it was not until Vātsyāyāna, the Indian Plato, that the syllogism became the center of the art of intellectual acrobatics.

1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 282 Ram Mohan went from the close examination of knowledge peculiar to Gautama's Nyaya..to the metaphysic of particularity and classification embodied by Kanada.