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Kalidas Bhattacarya
come to be known, that knowledge is not mediated by mental states.
Indeed, whatever a matter of inalienable faith may be said to be known as unknown, there being on some occasions a felt need, and on some occasions none, that one should put in best efforts to niake it known as known inalienable faiths are all of them of cognitive impoit Non-cogoitive faiths are those which are dispensable
Questions and searches, too, are cases of knowing something as unknown, provided the questions are not silly and the searches not uniegulated, 1. e unbacked by guidiog hypotheses. That about which one asks a relevant question is already known, and similarly with what is seriously sought after, 1* And, yet, in either case it must at the same time be also unknown, tor were it not unknown there could not be question or search at all It cannot be said that some part or aspect of the thing was known and some other part unknown If by that is meant that only the part which is unknown is questioned or searched after, the difficulty would be tnat if this part be wholly unknown there could not be ques. tion or search Nor can it be said that this part itself is partly known and partly unknown, for the same difficulty would arise with regard to this latest unknown part. Neither, also, can it be said that the question is not about, and the search not for, any part, but about or for the whole thing considered as with the unknown part True, when we ask a question 16 about a thing it stands partly known and partly unknown. But that alone does not occasion the question The question about a certain character of a thing necessarily presuppose that the possibility of that character in that thing is already known, the question that is raised being about its actuality, and between possibility and actuality the relation is not that of a part and a whole. The content in both the cases is absolutely
15 Perheps there is not much of difference between relevant question and
serious cognitive search. The Sanskrit term Junasa' stands for both 16 And similarly in the case of search.
