Whose experience validates what for Dharmakı̄rti?
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It is well known that Dharmakı̄rti followed Dignāga in accepting that there are exactly two sources of new knowledge (pramān. a), namely, sensation (pratyaks. a) and inference (anumāna), and that the criteria by which these two means of acquiring knowledge are distinguished were somewhat different for the two philosophers. Dignāga claimed that the two sources of knowledge were distinct in that sensation deals only with sensible qualities, which are always particular (svalaks. an. a), whereas inference deals only with intellectible properties, which are always general (sāmānyalaks. an. a). Universals (jāti) and other general properties are never directly sensed, according to Dignāga. Rather, the intellect ignores subtle differences in sensible particulars and forms the notion that things that are not remarkably different are similar. This idea of similarity or generality is then attributed to what has been sensed so that one who is unwary may come to believe that he has actually sensed the similarity, rather than having imposed a mental construct upon sensation.
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