INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
understood as the love of wisdom or knowledge that is
Ultimate.
The Nature of Reality has been elusive in a
sense because of the further considerations of the
knower, the known and the knowing which differ
according to what is to be known and who is the
knower. If the knower belongs to a level of being lower
that that of what has to be known, the known eludes his
grasp. The adequacy of each to the other is the
measure of the possibility of knowledge. This means
that sensory knowing can only give the known of a
certain quality and not that which is different or higher
than it. It is precisely because most speculations on the
theory of knowledge do not perceive this ill-mated
adventure into philosophizing that there have resulted
diverse philosophies not independent of each other as
they ought to be but mutually accusing each other of
inadequacy if not erroneousness or falsity. The solution
to this situation is not to be found by developing a
theory of hierarchical or relative truths leading up to that
ultimate truth which will contradict absolutely all that is
below it in the shape of knowing. Extraordinary logics
have been developed by logicians belonging to different
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