#svatah-pramanya

⇄ Every cognition should be trusted until something defeats it: the Mīmāṃsakas were right

Let me defend my own school. 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…