Epistemology of Perception: Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi, Jewel of Reflection on the Truth (about Epistemology) : The Perception Chapter (Pratyakṣa-khaṇḍa)The present work is a translation of The Perception Chapter of Jewel of Reflection on the Truth, a foundational text by the great fourteenth-century Indian logician Gangesa Upadhyaya. The authors' introduction and running commentary to the translation provide essential theoretical and historical background, contextualization, analysis, and comparison of Nyaya and Western traditions. Includes a detailed glossary and index. Published by American Institute of Buddhist Studies (AIBS) |
Contents
GANGEŚA AND NYAYA PHILOSOPHY | 2 |
TATTVACINTAMANI | 31 |
Characterizing Perception pratyakṣalakṣaṇavāda | 327 |
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absential cognition according anyathā apperception argument asti atoms Bhatta blue Calcutta causal causal complex causal factor cognition's Comments correlate countercorrelate cowhood defect Devadatta distinct doubt earthen effort to act entity as qualified epistemic error evam example experience fiery fire floor fluidity Furthermore Gangesa continues grasped inference inferential mark infinite regress inherence instance iti cet iti vācyam jāti jñānam known locus manas mangala manifest color manifest touch memory-impression Mīmāmsā Mimāmsaka mother-of-pearl Naiyāyika non-cognition non-distinctness non-grasping non-veridical cognition Nyaya object objecthood objector.1 occur Old Nyaya ontological perceived pervade position Prabhakara predication content present prior absence probandum prover purvapakṣin qualificandum Ramanuja relation remembering Sanskrit self-linkage self-linking sense organ sensory connection silver sound specified substance substratum syāt tasya tathā tatra tejas Text things tion Tirupati Translation atha Translation nanu Udayana undercutter universal veridical awareness veridical cognition vinā visual organ visual perception yadi