Potter's Spectrum

Abridged and distorted from Karl H. Potter, Presuppositions of India's Philosophies, p. 103.

(Missing here, along with many fine points, is Potter's valuable attention to distinctions among the many types both of Buddhist systems and of Vedanta systems, as well as his inclusion of other criteria of difference such as theories of error and views on negative reals.)

Buddhist Systems Nyaya-Vaisesika
and Mimamsa A		 Jaina
and Mimamsa B		 Samkhya
and Theistic Vedanta		 Advaita Vedanta
Wholes Unreal Parts and Wholes
Real and Distinct		 Wholes Both Equal
to and Not Equal
to Parts		 Whole Equal to
Sum of Parts		 Parts Unreal
Asatkaryavada
(effect not pre-existent in cause)		 Anekantavada
(everything both same
and different)		 Satkaryavada
(effect pre-existent in cause)
Sadrsya
(co-ordination)		 Samavaya
(inherence)		 Bhedabheda
(identity-in-
difference)		 Parinama
(transformation)		 Vivarta
(manifestation)
Nominalism
(post rem)		 Realism
(ante rem)		 ? Conceptualism
(in re)

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Class notes for Religion W4620 (Nonduality in Indian and Tibetan Thought), Fall 2002.
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