Jaina Tarka Bhasha

Author(s): Dayanand Bhargava
Publisher: Motilal Barasidas Pvt Ltd

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The Organ of Knowledge
[13. Investigation into recognition ]
*25. Recognition is the synthetic knowledge, caused by experience and recollection, and cognising the similarity (between the two) and identity (of one person at different ages) etc., e.g. "This body of the cow is the same,''gavaya(the Gayal) is like cow', 'he is the same Jinadatta', 'he is saying the same thing', 'a buffalo is different from the cow', 'this is away from that, this is near that, “this is longer or shorter than that' etc.
*26. The Buddhists hold that there is no one knowledge as recognition because it consists of two varieties in the form of this and that which are obvious and obscure respectively; it is not correct: because it is experienced as one like the knowledge of the picture even though it differs in form, and because, in fact, this is one as being obscure in form and generated from its own source and because the indication 'this' is the cause of recognition. If it is said that this recognition does not exist because of the absence of its subject; we say : no; because it has as its subject the particular object which is one consisting of the former and the latter modes. Therefore, the view that this is, in fact, a couple of knowledge in the form of experience and memory not touching anything unperceived hitherto' is refuted; because in this way there would be the unacceptable position of the elimination of all qualifying knowledge. Yet some hold the view that this is perceptual cognition, because it conforms to the concomitance in agreement and disagreement with the senses; this is also not so; because the confirmation to the concomitance in agreement and disagreement with direct perception cannot be proved, because the confirmation to the direct perceptual cognition and memory (both)of the recognition is experienced, otherwise, there would be an undesirable occasion of its occurrence at the time of first sight of the object.
*27. And, if this be said that recognition is produced by senses with the help of the memory, produced by the awakening of the latent impressions, born at the time of first sight, at the time of the next sight; it is incorrect; because direct perception is not dependent on memory.