Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s7.4

c8.s7.4

Nyāya is opposed to the theory of *śabdānuvedha* there can be no cognition without the verbal knowledge. If *nirvikalpa jñāna* is accepted, a distinction between perception and the verbalization of perceptual state is maintained. A child has the knowledge of the deep structures of language whereas what he learns later on is its surface structure.⁵⁰