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				<description><![CDATA[What is &#8220;perception&#8221;? For Buddhist epistemologists, it includes: sense-perception (indriyapratyakṣa) yogic perception self-awareness of cognitions (svasaṃvedana) mānasapratyakṣa (used to access immediately preceding cognitive events) For Nyāya epistemologists, it includes: sense-perception (indriyapratyakṣa) yogic perception mānasapratyakṣa (used to access immediately preceding cognitive events) (including anuvyavasāya) svasaṃvedana is refused, because cognitions are not transparent. Instead, they are perceptible [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is &#8220;perception&#8221;? For Buddhist epistemologists, it includes:</p>
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<li>sense-perception (indriyapratyakṣa)</li>
<li>yogic perception</li>
<li>self-awareness of cognitions (svasaṃvedana)</li>
<li>mānasapratyakṣa (used to access immediately preceding cognitive events)</li>
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<p>For Nyāya epistemologists, it includes:</p>
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<li>sense-perception (indriyapratyakṣa)</li>
<li>yogic perception</li>
<li>mānasapratyakṣa (used to access immediately preceding cognitive events) (including anuvyavasāya)</li>
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<p>svasaṃvedana is refused, because cognitions are not transparent. Instead, they are perceptible through anuvyavasāya, which is a form of mānasapratyakṣa.</p>
<p>For Mīmāṃsā epistemologists, it includes:</p>
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<li>sense-perception (indriyapratyakṣa)</li>
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<p>Please notice that sense-perception includes, for all Sanskrit philosophers I am aware of, six senses, one of which is manas, which is meant to grasp internal events, typically sukha or duḥkha.</p>
<p>Now, where does Kumārila&#8217;s ahampratyaya &#8216;cognition of the I&#8217; fall into? It cannot be a case of mānasapratyakṣa, because this one is not accepted as a separate way to accept cognitive events (for thorough refutations of it from a Mīmāṃsā point of view, one can check Śālikanātha&#8217;s Pramāṇapārāyaṇa, pratyakṣapariccheda or Vācaspati&#8217;s Nyāyakaṇikā, on VV chapter 8). It could be a case of indriyapratyakṣa, with the manas working as the sense faculty, but this is odd, given that manas as a sense faculty should grasp a sensory object, like sukha or duḥkha and it is unclear how the aham could qualify as one.</p>
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