Raghunatha Siromani


Raghunatha Shiromani was an Indian philosopher and logician. He was born at Nabadwip in present-day Nadia district of West Bengal state. He was the grandson of , a noted writer on from his mother's side. He was a pupil of. He brought the new school of Nyaya, ', representing the final development of Indian formal logic, to its zenith of analytic power.
Raghunatha's analysis of relations revealed the true nature of number, inseparable from the abstraction of natural phenomena, and his studies of metaphysics dealt with the negation or nonexistence of a complex reality. His most famous work in logic was the Tattvachintamanididhiti|, a commentary on the Tattvacintāmaṇi of Gangesha|, founder of the
' school.
A descriptive information of Raghunatha with some controversial issues and bibliography are to be found at
. The contemporary deployment of a new category, svatva, introduced by Raghunatha, is discussed in