هیتو

हेतु hetu, s.m. Impulse, motive; cause, ground, reason, account, object, purpose, sake, intention, desire; meaning, drift; source, origin; means, instrument, occasion;—(in Logic) the reason for an inference;—any logical deduction or argument, proof;—the second of the five component parts of a complete syllogism; the middle term;—postpn. By reason (of, -ke), because (of), on account (of), for the sake (of):—hetu-hetumad-bhūt, s.m. (in Gram.) The conditional mode:—hetvābhās (˚tu+ābh˚), s.m. (in Logic), Mere appearance of a reason, fallacious semblance of an argument; fallacious middle term; fallacy.