Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c6.2

c6.2

(1) When we consider the history of thought in Greece, we find that metaphysics first develops out of mythology¹ and it is only when metaphysical speculation attains a certain maturity and results in the formulation of a variety of theories that an interest is shown in the problem of knowledge and epistemological questions are first mooted.² If we turn to the Indian context we can trace an analogous though by no means an identical development.