Exam 4: Language and Knowledge in Indian Philosophy

The conventional element in language is……….. and helps the manifestation of the eternal words and their meanings.

Upamana is knowledge derived from comparison and roughly corresponds to ………….

When a varna is pronounced or written in ten different ways, there are not ten different varnas, but only ten different manifestations of the same ………….

The identity statements, according to Advaita, reveals the identity meaning by the application of ………………..implication.

According to Sankara, cognitions are regarded as modifications of the ………in which the pure spirit is reflected.

………….. alone is considered to be a pramana which gives rise to Brahman-knowledge and all other pramana deal with the material world.

A…………… is regarded as an articulated sound.

Jaimini admits three pramanas, such as, perception, inference and…………..

The word……………. literally means 'revered thought' and was originally applied to the Interpretation of the Vedic rituals which commanded highest reverence.

The pervasion of ………….removes the veil of ignorance and the pervasion of reflected consciousness illumines the object.

The Nyaya tradition reduced the……………… to inference.

…………….. means that the middle term appears to be a reason but is not a valid reason.