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Means of Knowledge (Pramāṇa)
How do we know anything truly? India's schools answered by counting the valid roads to knowledge.
Pramāṇa is one of the great organizing ideas of Indian philosophy: a 'valid means of knowledge,' a reliable route by which we come to know what is true. Schools build their whole systems on which means they accept — perception, inference, and the testimony of trustworthy words being the most widely admitted. Debates over the pramāṇas are how Indian thinkers argued about evidence, reason, and the authority of scripture.
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- Yoga-sūtraKāśī (Varanasi) · 375explains
- UpadeśasāhasrīKālaḍi (Kaladi) · 710explains
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 530↗explains
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)
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