Pramanas- Sources of knowledge in Indian philosophy

Vedic-Śruti(Vedas) supreme!
Nyaya-Pratyakṣa(Empirical)>Anumāna(Inference)
Jaina-Intuition supreme!
Buddhist-Empirical>>inference
Charvaka-Empirical supreme!

Ancient Greeks-Inference supreme!

Modern Science-Empirical supreme!
Science freed itself from the Greek madness. But mathematics is still drunk with notions of proof, 'truth' & 'perfection'

Indian mathematicians- the guys who ACTUALLY invented most of Math-did not think like that. They accepted the Empirical

It's time Math returned to its roots
Mathematics has been forced into Platos belief that 'empirical is inferior' & Proclus' belief that math is 'eternal truth'. That bivalued Aristotelian logic is universal

Science & Indian philosophy says-
Your logical constructs are worthless, if they contradict experiment & fact
The simplest examples-
-Ancient Indians learned and did math with ropes and bricks!
-A single piece of rope can do everything all instruments in a geometry box can do.

The idealist Greek would laugh at Baudhayana's rope and brick !
https://shekereblog.wordpress.com/tag/ck-raju/ 
http://www.svabhinava.org/dia-gnosis/RajuCK/IndianRopetrick.pdf
The Sulba sutras were written in the 2nd millenium BCE long before Greeks even existed. Sulba means 'rope' or 'chord'. The rope was an important tool in Vedic education before Macaulay anglicized us. The ancient rope was abandoned as 'imperfect'

Rope v/s geometry box.
Fight!
Rope v/s Geometry box

Looks like the winner is obvious.
Baudhayana has the last laugh!
This is why Indians should learn basic Indian philosophy at some point of education. Or at least their lifetime

Vasco gave us the 'scientific method'!
The same Vasco who took the navigational instrument Rapalagai back to Europe!
The same Portuguese who stole Calculus from India!
When you say "Bacon is father of Empiricism" do you know how many Indian philosophers/realists/logicians you are insulting?-Kapila, Kanada, Akshapada, Charvaka, Dharmakirti, Dignaga & Gangesa to name a few

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