Dharmakīrti on the Duality of Objects. Pramāṇavārttika III 1–63, by Eli Franco and Miyako Notake

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Notes

1. ‘Perception and inference are the means of knowledge. These are precisely two because object of a means of knowledge are the two characteristics. For other than the particular and the universal there is no object’, cf. E. Steinkellner (ed.), ‘Dignāga's Pramāṇasamuccaya, Chapter 1’ (April 2005), 1.15–19 [http://ikga.oeaw.ac.at/Mat/dignaga_PS_1.pdf, accessed 18 April 2017].

2. Miyako Notake, ‘Dharmakīrti's Argument over the Universal in the Third Chapter of the Pramāṇavārttika’, vv. 11–50, in Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Vol. 59, no. 3 (2011), p. 1245 (referring to stanzas 11‒33).

3. Here, one might mention his Sāmānyaparīkṣā and the polemical treatises Nyāya-, Vaiśeṣika- and Sāṅkhyaparīkṣā.