EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
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Inference
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Scriptures
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Perception
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All of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian epistemological tradition comprises six important sources of knowledge. They are: perception (pratyaksa), inference (anumana), verbal testimony (Sabda), comparison (upamana), presupposition (arthapatti) and non-apprehension (anupalabdhi).
Detailed explanation-2: -In Indian philosophies, pramana are the means which can lead to knowledge, and serve as one of the core concepts in Indian epistemology. It has been one of the key, much debated fields of study in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism since ancient times.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are gernerally four sources of knowledge; intuition, authority, rational induction, and empiricism.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Vedas are the original sources of Indian philosophy and are called impersonal since they were transmitted from one generation to the next by word of mouth, from one teacher to his disciple. For the same reason they are also called Sruti.
Detailed explanation-5: -In Indian philosophy the Bauddha uphold the view that knowledge, as an existent fact, consists in the act of showing and leads to an object. The Jaina contends that a cognition can apprehend an object, only when it apprehends itself. Knowledge, like a lamp, illumines itself as well as an external objects.