Leaving the reader to study the details of the discussion in Dr. Ballantyne's aphorisms of the Nyāya (Part Second, pp. 77 ff.), I will pass over most of the Sūtras, and merely quote the principal conclusions of the Nyāya aphorist.
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Aphorist
Synonyms for "aphorist"
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17 translations across 12 languages.
Czech
1 entries- aforista noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Danish
1 entries- aforistiker noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Finnish
1 entries- aforisti noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
German
2 entries- Aphoristiker noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
- Aphoristikerin noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Irish
4 entries- nathaire noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
- nathaí noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
- nathaíodóir noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
- nathánaí noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Italian
1 entries- aforista noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Macedonian
1 entries- афорист noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- aforistiker noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- aforistikar noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Polish
2 entries- aforysta noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
- aforystka noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Portuguese
1 entries- aforista noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Swedish
1 entries- aforistiker noun (person who writes or recites aphorisms)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In the examination of the revisions which these texts underwent, we have stolen a rare glance into the interior of the workshop of the aphorist.
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[Juhani Siljo]'s natural form of expression was the aphorism; he is one of the best aphorists of his time and in Finnish literature.
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