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Kumārila said a cognition is valid until shown otherwise. Is that internalism or externalism?
In our school we teach the Mīmāṃsā doctrine called svataḥ prāmāṇya, intrinsic validity. I have been reading the internalism and externalism debate in English, and I would like to know whether this doctrine belongs on one side, or whether the map does…
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Every cognition should be trusted until something defeats it: the Mīmāṃsakas were right
I teach Pūrva Mīmāṃsā in Varanasi. One of our school's central doctrines is svataḥ prāmāṇya, the intrinsic validity of cognition. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa argued that when a cognition arises, its validity arises with it. We do not need a second cognition to certify…
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