Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c8.5

c8.5

(145) These sceptical hints of the earlier Vedic thought and the agnostic trends of the Upaniṣads could have paved the way for the growth of sceptical schools of thought, but the impetus and the occasion for their arising seem to have been provided by the presence of diverse, conflicting and irreconcilable theories, pertaining to moral, metaphysical, and religious beliefs. When there is a welter of contending views, people naturally become curious as to which view is true and in the absence of a safe criterion of truth become suspicious as to whether any view at all could be true