Buddhist Logic v2.c19.s4: § 4. The Answer of Uddyotakāra
Buddhist Logic v2.c19.s4
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§ 4. The Answer of Uddyotakāra
v2.c19.s4.1
Nyāya-vārt., pp. 5. 9—14.
v2.c19.s4.2
(5. 9). This is wrong! We do not admit it. We, first of all, do not admit (the limitation) of two sources of knowledge, nor of two kinds of object, nor of the impossibility of their mixture. Why? The sources of our knowledge are, indeed, four in number, (perception, inference, analogy and testimony). The objects are of three kinds, the particulars, the universals and their mixture. (5. 11). A mixt (knowledge) is possible in that sense that the same object can be apprehended by any source of knowledge, as e. g., by the senses (etc.). (5. 12). A sense faculty is a source of knowledge, it illumines, (as it were), the objects. Sometimes it is limited, sometimes mixed. It is limited, e. g., in the cognition of odours (which can be apprehended by one sense faculty). It is not limited in the cognition of solid bodies which are cognized by two senses, (by vision and touch). As regards the perception of Existence or of the fact of possessing attributes, (i. e., the Categories of Substance and Quality), this is cognized by every sense.