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Āptamīmāmsā
necessary factors, namely the subject of knowledge (pramātā), the object of knowledge (prameya) and the method of knowledge (pramāņa).
The subject (pramātā) and the object (prameya) are strictly correlative factors involved in all knowledge. They are distinguishable, no doubt, as the knower and the known, but not separable in any act of knowledge.
All true knowledge must be connected with some method of knowledge. In Western philosophy it is customary to analyze the knowledge-relation into the three factors of subject, object and process of knowledge. These correspond respectively to pramātā,prameya and pramā in Indian philosophy.
What is the fruit of pramāņa - pramāņa-phala or pramiti? The aim of pramāņa is to make the object of knowledge clear. It is to illuminate the object. Most importantly, pramāņa removes ignorance and enables one to make distinction between what is true and what is false and between what needs to be accepted and what needs to be discarded. The Omniscient, however, who enjoys infinite knowledge and bliss, has complete detachment for the worldly objects of knowledge.
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