Correct Answer - Option 1 : Gautama
The correct answer is Gautama.
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Nyaya Sutras is an influential collection of texts on logic and reason, attributed to Aksapada Gautama.
- It is estimated to have been composed between 6th-century BCE and 2nd-century CE.
- Nyaya school shares human suffering foundations and some of its methodologies with Buddhism.
- Nyaya school's epistemology accepts 4 out of 6 Pramanas as reliable means of gaining knowledge:-
- Pratyaksa (perception)
- Anumana (inference)
- Upamana (comparison and analogy)
- Sabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts)
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Nyaya school is closer to the Vaisheshika school of Hinduism than others, in its metaphysics.
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Naiyyayika scholars detain philosophy as a form of direct realism, in that anything that really exists is in principle humanly knowable.
