Author Affiliations: University ‘‘Sapienza’’, Rome, Italy
關鍵詞
Error; Absence; Negative cognition; Indian Philosophy; Mīmāṃsā; Epistemology
摘要
Kumārila's commitment to the explanation of cognitive experiences not confined to valid cognition alone, allows a detailed discussion of border-line cases (such as doubt and error) and the admittance of absent entities as separate instances of cognitive objects. Are such absent entities only the negative side of positive entities? Are they, hence, fully relative (since a cow could be said to be the absent side of a horse and vice versa)? Through the analysis of a debated passage of the Ślokavārttika, the present article proposes a reconstruction of Kumārila's view of the relation between erroneous cognitions and cognitions of absence (abhāva), and considers the philosophical problem of the ontological status of absence.
目次
Cognition of Absence According to the Bhattamımamsa 39 Kumarila’s Analysis of Perceptual Error and its Parallels with Cognition of Absence 41 SV niralambana 107cd-118 42 A Proposed Solution 45