Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c26.s2.27

c26.s2.27

The idea of the process of knowledge in perception thus suggested is that of an object as endowed by the activity of the imagination with a definite ideal character, which is represented to us in the idea of the object; there is therefore sameness between the object and our idea, and we have not the absurdity of an idea copying something non-ideal. It is the experience or realization of the sameness which results in the assertion ‘This is blue’. The ground of this state, if inquired into, can be answered on the Vijñānavāda basis, as Dharmakīrti does in his Pramāṇa-viniścaya preserved in Tibetan; consciousness develops itself into the ultimately unreal complex of the object, subject, and consciousness of the object by the subject.⁴ In this may lie the apparent outwardness of the presentation.