Dignaga Quotes on Knowledge
Dignaga was an Indian Buddhist logician and epistemologist and the founder of the Buddhist tradition of logic and philosophy of knowledge. This page collects quotes attributed to Dignaga on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Dignaga:
“There are two valid means of knowledge: perception and inference.”
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Attributed to Dignaga:
“Perception is free from conceptual construction.”
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Attributed to Dignaga:
“A word picks out its object by excluding what it is not.”
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Attributed to Dignaga:
“The two means of knowledge correspond to the two kinds of objects.”