Perceiving in Advaita Vedānta: Epistemological Analysis and InterpretationAdvaita Vedanta is the most pervasive and enduring Indian perspective, and continues to be the most challenging and provocative philosophic position the world over. This study undertakes an analysis of the epistemological issues inherent in the Advaita Vedanta theory of the knowing and the known. |
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 9 |
Introduction | 23 |
Truth and the Means of True Knowledge | 108 |
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Perceiving in Advaita Ved?nta: Epistemological Analysis and Interpretation Bina Gupta Limited preview - 1991 |
Perceiving in Advaita Vedānta: Epistemological Analysis and Interpretation Bina Gupta Limited preview - 1995 |
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absence adjectival feature admitted Advaita Advaita Vedanta Advaitins ajñāna arises assuming the form attributes author of VP avidya Bhamati Brahman caitanya cognizer-consciousness consciousness conditioned counter-correlate definition Devadatta distinction dream objects element empirical epistemological erroneous cognition example existence explains function happiness hetu identity illusory silver immediacy immediate implies indeterminate Indian philosophy individual inference inferential cognition internal organ jiva knowledge-event known limiting adjunct locus maintains manifested material cause māyā means of knowledge mediate mental mode assuming merit and demerit mind modal ignorance modification Naiyāyikas nature negation nondifference nondual Nyaya perceived perception perceptual cognition perceptual experience perceptual knowledge phenomenological pitcher position pramāna pratyaksa present primal nescience pure consciousness Ramanuja reality refers relation retrocognition saksin Samkara sense organ shell shell-silver śruti sublated substratum superimposed superimposition Sureśvara tat tvam asi term theory thesis thou art tradition Upanisadic Vacaspati Vedanta verbal testimony vitti Vivaraņa vrtti waking witness-consciousness words