Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c16.s3.16

c16.s3.16

We find also among the Sarvāstivādins a view of the nature of the process styled perception or ideation (saṃjñā), which gives that category a more effective content than it sometimes has in the older psychology.³ We must distinguish between the mere actual perception, for example, of blue, and the judgement ‘this is blue’ when the object is fixed by being given a name, so that we may treat perception as involving two kinds of contact, the simple one of resistance and one of denomination; it is tempting to assume that some such idea really underlay the distinction of resistance-perception and denominative-perception (*paṭigha-* and *adhivacana-saññā*) in the *Vibhaṅga*, but the view of Buddhaghosa is different.