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Sanskrit:
“the incidence of a case”
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implication
pramana

arthapatti, in Indian philosophy, the fifth of the five means of knowledge (pramana) by which one obtains accurate knowledge of the world. Arthapatti is knowledge arrived at through presumption or postulation.

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