Indian Philosophy v2.c25.s2.73

v2.c25.s2.73

Judgments of similarity are due to comparison. When we see a certain object and remember another, the cognition that we have of the similarity of the remembered object to the seen one is said to be due to comparison. The cow that I had seen in the city is similar to the gavaya that I see now.¹ Knowledge by comparison is distinct from that by perception, since we cognise something which is not in contact with the senses by remembrance, since at the time the cow was seen the gavaya was not seen, by inference, since none of the factors necessary for inference is present.