Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.174

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c16.174

**Its Three Forms: (a) 'Pratyaksha'.** The Mind is driven to seek the first method of knowledge by the senses conveying to it a taste of objects (*vishaya*). It is a direct contact between Mind and Matter. The characteristic of *pratyaksha-jñāna* is that it comprehends an object by its tangible qualities. It also comprehends objects as individuals by their specific (*viśesha*) qualities and not by their generic (*sāmānya*) ones by which individual objects are seen to belong to classes or groups.

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