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CHAPTER IV.
EPISTEMOLOGY AND LOGIC.
Further consideration of the Processes of Knowledge. -Judgment and its Three Elements--Rules and Canons which a Judgment should obey.-Insufficiency of the Perceptual Source of Knowledge-Hence other Sources of Knowledge.
lation.
In the preceding pages we have discussed Re-capitu- that Knowledge implies a Subject or a thinking principle which knows and an Object on which it exercises its knowing power. We have seen also that to know an object is to know the relations it bears to Self and other surrounding things as well. We have also seen the particular forms of knowledge which the Jain savants teach in their own peculiar way. We have seen
further that the last form or the Keval jnána is not only a form of knowledge but a source of knowledge as well, free from all mediate processes. It now behoves us to enquire as to what other possible sources of knowledge we are ordinarily aware of.
It is but a truism to say that you and I depend upon our mind to know the world.
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