Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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Characteristic Indicafron of Kaval
of
Intuition
minds
KNOWLEDGE AND IT'S FORMS the idea of succession and series. Being devoid of every sort of ratiocinative ele fico ment, we may call it 'Intuition' power By Dr Intation Intuitive knowledge we mean, of course, what we get by a single stroke of cognition, unadulterated by any of the processes of representation As for us, finite beings, conditioned naturally by the relativity. of thought, we cannot have this sort of cognition ; because a careful analysis of the psychological impossibility processes seems to show that by virtue of the by ordinary frame and constitution of our mind, in every cognition which we can have, both the presentative and the representative elements are, as it were, inseparably blended together. Indeed, some philosophers may hold the quite opposite view and affirm that we can perceive objects directly by our senses and that forma. tion of the percept requires no help of representation. But surely, we can meet them in the language of Kant by saying that mere sensa. tions, unalloyed with any reactionary and representative processes, are as good as pothing, because they are no better than manifold of senses quite undifferentiated and homogeneous in character. But this--though an im
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