Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t17.28

v1.c7.s7.t17.28

Lokayata also examines testimony and comparison. It rejects the reliability of testimony, since testimony in itself relies on recognition of a kind of language signs, and such language used by an old man when a kid appears. Comparison is also rejected as the means of the knowledge of the connection, since the objective of using comparison is to establish a different kind of knowledge, ie the relation of a name to something so named.