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Inference.
Analogy.
Testimony,
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
(2) Inference (Th11)-Knowledge born of the apprehension of an unseen member from an invariable association (quín) by the perception of another known member.
(3) Analogy (59a1a)— Knowledge from the recognition of likeness based on resemblance i.e. from the detection of the points of identity and difference through the process of comparison and recognition of similarity with something well-known before.
(4) Verbal Testimony (12)-Knowledge derived from the pronouncements of authoritative persons who have sensed truths as it were.
(5) Implication ( quiufat )-Such knowledge as can be determined of a thing not itself perceived, but implied by another.
(6) Non-entity (9417)—Knowledge arising from the cognition of absence or Negation or Non-being as we conclude from the fact that Deva Datta is not in the house, that he must have gone out.
(7) Tradition (afat)-Knowledge gained from such accounts, legendary or otherwise, which have been handed down to generation to generation from time immemorial.
Implication.
Non-existence.
Tradition.
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