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Knowing Blue: Early Buddhist Accounts of Non-Conceptual Sense
Author Sharf, Robert H.
Source Philosophy East and West
Volumev.68 n.3
Date2018.07
Pages826 - 870
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
Publisher Url https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/
LocationHonolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
NoteAuthor Affiliations: Group in Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley
AbstractIn post-Dignāga Buddhist epistemology, non-conceptual cognition (nirvikalpajñāna) comes to be construed as a sort of pre-reflective and self-intimating feature of all states of cognition. In earlier Buddhist Ābhidharmika exegesis, however, the closest candidate for non-conceptual cognition is the notion that the five sense consciousnesses apprehend their object-supports directly, as opposed to the sixth consciousness—mind consciousness (manovij ñāna)—which alone has the capacity for conceptual discrimination. In an oft -repeated example, visual consciousness is said to know "blue" but not "this is blue"; it is mind consciousness that knows "this is blue." This article explores the diffi culties that early Buddhist exegetes encountered as they tried to make sense of immediate, non-conceptual cognition.
Table of contentsDistributed Cognition 829
Knowing Blue 835
Vitarka, Vicāra, and the Three Kinds of Discrimination 838
What (if Anything) Sees? 848
Final Thoughts 853
Acknowledgements 855
ISSN00318221 (P); 15291898 (E)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2018.0075
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Created date2018.09.27
Modified date2019.05.17



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