The logicians of this school were primarily interested in defining their terms and concepts related to non-binary logical categories.
[2] Scholars have struggled to find an accurate date for Gaṅgeśa with the most common estimate placing him in the late thirteenth century however recent opinion now places him in the fourteenth century.
[1] Gaṅgeśa's work is mainly focused on epistemology although he does rely on ontological systems in his analyses.
[3] Gaṅgeśa provides a detailed account of perception (pratyakṣa) as a fundamental means of knowledge acquisition.
Gaṅgeśa's analysis of perception involves understanding how the senses apprehend various qualities of objects, such as color or sound.
Gaṅgeśa defines inference as a process that allows one to draw conclusions based on observed relationships.
He is far more precise, more careful to define his terms, than were his predecessors; these virtues of his work are responsible for the fact that perhaps half of Navya-Nyaya literature is based either directly on the T.C.