How many avayavas are found in Pararthanumana? Name them.
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All systems of Indian philosophy except the Carvaka admit Anumana (Inference) as a means of valid knowledge. It is a means of arriving at truth not directly but through a previous knowledge of concomitance (vyapti) between the major term (sadhya) and the middle term (sadhana). Therefore, unlike Pratyaksa (percep tion), Anumana (inference) yields mediate knowledge. Anumana is the process of reasoning in the course of which from ones’s invariable relation with other found previously a new type of knowl edge is deduced. The word ‘Anumana’ is generally translated as ‘inference’. It used for two things, viz., ‘anumiti’ (inferential cognition) and ‘anumiti-karana’ (the instrument of inferential cognition). Through inference we are able to get knowledge about things not avail able at the moment of perception, since the term ‘anumana’ means such knowledge as follows some other knowledge unperceived. The term ‘anumana’ consists of two parts, viz., ‘anu’ and ‘mana’, ‘mana’ means an apprehension or way of apprehension of object
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How many avayava in pararthanumana have ?