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Prāsaṅgika Epistemology in Context

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posted on 2023-05-22, 13:28 authored by Sonam ThakchoeSonam Thakchoe
Some argue that a Prāsaṅgika Mādhyamika is committed to rejecting all epistemic instruments pramäṇa because they reject intrinsic natures svabhäva and intrinsic characteristics (svalakṣaṇa). This chapter takes a different perspective. arguing that Candrakīrti accepts both conventional and rationally warranted epistemic instruments and develops a cogent account of their respective roles in our cognitive lives. To be sure, any Mādhyamika rejects intrinsic nature. but Candrakīrti shows that epistemic instruments give us access to epistemic objects (prameya) precisely because they lack such nature and that each has its appropriate sphere of use simply because, relative to the standards appropriate to those spheres, each apprehends its respective object.

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Publication title

Moonshadows: conventional truth in Buddhist philosophy

Editors

The Cowherds

Pagination

39-55

ISBN

978-0-19-975143-3

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Place of publication

New York

Extent

14

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Copyright 2011 Oxford University Press, Inc.

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