Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c8.98

c8.98

(184) One of the alternatives is that the four-fold schema was not the innovation of Sañjaya but was held in common by all the schools of the Sceptics; in such a case Buddhism would have either borrowed this classification from the Sceptics or shared it with them. The other alternative is that the innovation was on the part of the Buddhists and that the Sceptics themselves including Sañjaya were not concerned with such problems.