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Hence Perception is the only means of Knowledge,
use of other
Knowledge been from time immemorial.
AN EPITOMĚ OF JAINISM. such a person to be found ? To say that
any one already knows universal truths and ception is can bear Testimony to it, is but begging the
question. Hence sense-perception ( gaa) is the only form of valid knowledge ( FATT).
So argue the Chârvâkas in defiance of Still has the the usage of all, times. There was never means of a time when the acts of seeing and inferring
etc. were not performed. The use of these acts are well known ; for it is through them that we can choose one thing and reject another, and though the use of the Pramånas are well-known to all, coming as it does from time immemorial, yet it is imperative that we should make a sifting enquiry into the truth and validity of the materialistic and sensationistic arguments as put forth by
such thinkers as Chârvâkas so that it might And there
serve as an warning to the foolish people a searching enquiry into from taking false knowledge for true : for it Vaka is said ;- .
fagi gatura ggota antaa ! Agnate fagia: FICHE HANIAE H
- The Näyávatára. Such is the trend of the Chârvakas' argument who admit only one pramâna.
fore require
the truth and valid ity of the Chårvaka attachment.
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