 These developments have led to a rather lively debate among scholars of the development of logic in early classical India. A very succinct, but somewhat misleading, way to put the question at the center of the debate is whether or not Dignāga’s canonical syllogism is inductive or deductive. A more cumbersome, but more precise, way to put the question is this: Is there a choice of a subject, of a property adduced as a reason, and of a property to be established which Dignāga would accept as constituting a good syllogism but which fails to satisfy the form corresponding to the canonical syllogism given above?