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Spoznavanje univerzalnih značilnosti predmeta za njegovo identiteto

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In everyday life, people cognize many objects. A question thus arises, how do we cognize an object? Do we cognize and identify an object through its observable (secondary) or universal (primary) features? According to the Nyāya School, we cognize an object through its “universal features”, as they manifest in each constituent of the object. Due to these universal features, we identify an object with a name. Further, Naiyāyikas said that when we cognize an object, our cognition will not be regarded as determinate cognition if we do not identify it with a name. The reason is a determinate cognition necessarily requires cognition of an object’s universal features and identification of an object with a name. Further, it possesses the conceptual construction of the object. In contrast to the Nyāya School, Buddhism argues that a determinate cognition need not require cognition of an object’s universal features and conceptual construction of the object. This is because people cognize objects through their observable features, not through universal features, and the latter are not identified and referred to through sense organs. Against this backdrop, the paper discusses nature, features, and two facets of cognition

Source: Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana)

Authors: Kumar, Nishant, Sethy, Satya Sundar

Language: English

Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies

Subfield: Religious studies

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7125622244

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