[Xmca-l] Re: Imagination or Fantasy (Vedanta)

Ed Wall ewall@umich.edu
Tue Dec 8 09:26:19 PST 2015


Annalisa

        I was referring to the darshans.

Ed

> On Dec 7, 2015, at  9:29 PM, Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> It just occurred to me that you might mean the 6 means of knowledge (pramana).
> 
> I can't know for sure, but there are 6 means of knowledge discussed when discussing how knowledge takes place.
> 
> First means is perception.
> Second is inference.
> Third is presumption.
> Fourth is comparison.
> Fifth is non-apprehension, or absence.
> Sixth is testimony.
> 
> So I thought maybe this might be what you meant?
> 
> It occurs to me just now that in all 6 examples I might offer that there is a kind of overlapping going on, along with an imagination. In each example, however, I think overlap happens a little bit differently.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Annalisa
> 




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