Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s7.3
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s7.3
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c8.s7.3
The orthodox Naiyāyikas believed that *pratyakṣa* is of two types — *laukika* (this-worldly) and *alaukika* (other-worldly). Both Diṅnāga and Dharmakīrti naturally stood against the *alaukika pratyakṣa* as it does not fit in the theory of *svalakṣaṇa* — a *svalakṣaṇa* cannot be judged in terms of *laukika* (this-worldly) or *alaukika* (other-worldly).