Nirvikalpaka Pratyaksha (study)
by Sujit Roy | 2013 | 40,056 words
This essay studies Nirvikalpaka Pratyaksha or “Indeterminate perception” primarily based on Nyaya Philosophy and Bauddha philosophy. Pratyaksa is that cognition which is produced by the contact of a sense organ with an object. It is a direct cognition of reality which is not derived through the medium or instrumentality of any other cognition....
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Chapter 5a - Nirvikalpaka Pratyakṣa according to Cārvāka
According to the Cārvākas pratyakṣa is the only pramāṇa. There is no other pramāṇa and there is no object of cognition which is not percept. The objects of pratyakṣa are those that are made of caturbhūtadravyas i.e. earth (kṣiti), water (ap), fire (agni), and air (vāyu).[1] These objects can be known only through sense-organs. The Cārvākas do not refer the two stages of pratyakṣa i.e. nirvikalpaka and savikalpaka.
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Collected from S. Radhakishnan’s ‘Indian Philosophy’, Vol-I, p. 279.