The six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy—Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimamsa and Vedanta—are almost always presented as competitors, six doctrines to be compared and co…
The tradition itself grouped the six into three natural pairs, each pair a method joined to its metaphysics.
Nyaya is the school of logic and epistemology. Its great contribution is the analysis of valid knowledge—pramana—the rules of inference and debate that let you tell a sound claim f…
Samkhya supplies one of the most influential maps of reality in Indian thought: the dualism of purusha (pure consciousness) and prakriti (nature), and the unfolding of the world th…
Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimamsa and Vedanta are usually taught as six rival schools. They are better understood as six lenses on one reality. Here is how they interlock.