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¶ “A hundred scriptures cannot make fire cold”: Śaṅkara’s rule for when scripture and perception collide

Discussions here of reason and revelation usually draw on Ibn Rushd and Maimonides. They deserve it. But the Advaita tradition worked out its own conflict rule, and I think it belongs in the same conversation. For Śaṅkara, scripture (śruti) is a means…