- 八门
- (八門二悟 or 八門兩益) Eight kinds of syllogisms in Buddhist logic; v. 因明八正理諭.(1) 能立a valid proposition;(2) 能破 an invalid proposition;(3) 似能立 doubtful, or seemingly valid but faulty;(4) 似能破 seemingly invalid, and assailable;(5) 現量manifest, or evidential;(6) 比量 inferential;(7) 似現量 seemingly evidential;(8) 似比量 seemingly inferential.
Chinese Buddhist terms dictionary (Chinese-English). William Edward Soothil and Lewis Hodous. 2006.