Hindu philosophy
Ancient and medieval Hindu texts identify six pramanas as correct means of accurate knowledge and truths: pratyaksa (perception), anumana (inference), upamana (comparison and analogy), arthapatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), anupalabdi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof) and sabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts) Each of these are further categorized in terms of conditionality, completeness, confidence and possibility of error, by each school . The various schools vary on how many of these six are valid paths of knowledge. For example, the Carvaka nastika philosophy holds that only one (perception) is an epistemically reliable means of knowledge, the Samkhya school holds three are (perception, inference and testimony), while the Mimamsa and Advaita schools hold all six are epistemically useful and reliable means to knowledge.
What Hindu philosohy is concerned with inference?
anumana
Ancient and medieval Hindu texts identify six pramanas as correct means of accurate knowledge and truths: pratyaksa (perception), anumana (inference), upamana (comparison and analogy), arthapatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), anupalabdi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof) and sabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts) Each of these are further categorized in terms of conditionality, completeness, confidence and possibility of error, by each school .
inference