What is the World? Neckties, Ghosts, Falling Hairs, and Celestial Cities in a Coherentist Epistemology
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Analogues between the coherentism-foundationalism debate in Western philosophy and Candrakīrti's critique of Dignāga's Pramāṇavāda approach are well attested.1 Many scholars who argue that Candrakīrti advocates a form of coherentism cite the following verse from Clear Words (Prasannapadā) as evidence:Thus, knowledge of worldly objects is determined through the fourfold epistemic instruments.And those are established with respect to each other.When the epistemic instruments are correct, so are their objects, and when the objects to be validated are correct, so are their epistemic instruments.It is not at all the case that the nature of the epistemic instrument (pramāṇa) or of the epistemic object (prameya) is established in and of itself.(Candrakīrti and Nāgārjuna 1913, p. 75) 2
Source: Philosophy East and West
Author: Jed D. Forman
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3096861640