Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s3.t5.11
Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s3.t5.11
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v2.c35.s3.t5.11
The next argument of the Th. is that if the S. admit that *paccuppannañāṇa* (present cognition) exists and it has the function of knowing things (*paccuppannam ñāṇam atthi, tena ñāṇena ñāṇakaraṇiyam karoti*) and then why not the *atītañāṇa* and *anāgatañāṇa*, the existence of which is affirmed by the S., should not have the function of knowing things in analogy to that of *paccuppannañāṇa*?² This the Th. consider as illogical and reject the contention of the S. that ‘*atītam ñāṇam atthi*’.