 Gańgeśa advances three contentious inferences in his inference chapter, two of them—a theistic inference and one about the possibility of “liberation,” mukti—defended at considerable length (all three are reconstructed and examined in Phillips 2012: 65–71). As much as supporting longstanding positions of Nyāya on (a) “self,” ātman, (b) “Lord,” īśvara, and (c) mukti, his treatments illustrate his inferential system including defeating and hypothetical reasoning. Indeed, illustration of the system sometimes seems to be the main goal.