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How to make sense of the (seemingly inborn) skills of animals and newborns?
#Maṇḍana thinks that they must be explained through competences acquired in a previous birth. But, wait, did not we have infinte lives before the current one? 1/2#SanskritPhilosophyPrikaži ovu nit -
Early
#Mīmāṃsā sources discuss perception in the following way: "That which is perception, does not err. If it errs, it is not perception". This appears to mean that perception and hallucination etc. are altogether different cognitive events#SanskritPhilosophy#epistemology 1/2Prikaži ovu nit -
I usually presuppose that each author aims at communicating a meaning and not just at muddling it. In this way, I managed to even enjoy reading Maṇḍana and Prabhākara, although at times they are really terse.
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Are there things which are absolutely non-existing? And if so, why can we think of them?
#Maṇḍana's mentions horned hares (but unicorns would also work) and says that they appear as real because they are made up of elements we have seen in other species.#SanskritPhilosophy pic.twitter.com/b959SO36Ie -
However, Udayana is shaking my convictions. After hours on the same passage, I am still unsure I am understanding it correctly and get at most a general idea of what his point is. What helped you reading Udayana?
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General problem: What is the status of "entities" we need for thought, but for which we are not ready to say that they exist? Say, unicorns, alternative worlds, present kings of France?
#Kumārila discusses the issue in connection with absence: 1/2#SanskritPhilosophyPrikaži ovu nit -
with which one attended the experience (e.g.: bathing a new-born for the first time). Do you agree?
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as well as a historical appraisal of Meghanadāri's indebtedness to
#Udayana and#Kumārila. Who authored it? Again, the incredible#UttamurTViraraghavacarya.#SanskritPhilosophy#contemporaryIndianPhilosophyPrikaži ovu nit -
as its center. Thus, the appearance of the sentence as conveying a single purpose is legitimate, because there is a single principal unity. I.e., you need a center in the middle in order for the rest to make sense. 2/2
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(one needs to grasp the absence of milk in curds and of curds in milk). Hence, absence needs to be known. But is it also something real, *since it is known*?In other words, does an epistemic necessity lead to an ontological necessity as well?
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Immortality and death both reside in the body, Death comes from temptation and immortality comes from truth.
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