note on superimposition/ wok/sky/query

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Bob wrote:

 

 

Namaste Michael,

 

Please help me out with the quotation marks. Is there a difference

between "with regard to ..." and "From every point of view?" I'm really

not being picky; I just want to make certain that I'm not starting out

with any more disadvantages than I already have.

 

Thanks, Bob

 

 

<snip>

Look at his language: 'with regard to this

> some say,.....But others assert....Others say. His

> summary of the whole lot comes down to..."From every

> point of view, however, there is no difference as

> regards the appearance of one thing as something else.

> And in accord with this, we find in common experience

> that the nacre appears as silver, and a single moon as

> two."

 

 

Hello Bob,

As you will see as you look at your Vedanta Sutras what I was

trying to illustrate was the fact that Sankara in the course of a very short

passage gives a lightening review of the various theories of superimposition.

.......separate short segments of text.

 

The theory of error was a problem field that interested all the systems of

classical Indian thought. In general the view of error was that it arose as

a mis-take or that we take something to be what it is not and thus err. One

can see that the perceptual was the paradigm of knowledge. It comes number

one in the list of pramanas or means of valid knowledge and would have been

accepted by all the orthodox schools. Superimposition is the mechanism

whereby the snake is placed on the rope, mis-taken for or confused with the

rope. The word con-fusion implies this action.

 

There is a problem re boys/sky as frying pan(wok) in respect of the rebuttal

of the objection that superimposition must be between two perceivable things.

I believe his answer changes the paradigm from confusion to illusion. An

analogy in any case tries to give the sense of the unfamiliar by way of the

familiar, it can't really be another case of the familiar or defended along

the lines of the familiar. Am I being clear here, it seems an important

point to me. Sankara had a nascent theory about analogy as I pointed out in

my previous post re the red hot iron ball but for whatever reason it was not

fully developed.

 

Best Wishes, Michael.

[Guest guest]

Namaste Michaelji,

 

advaitin, ombhurbhuva <ombhurbhuva@e...> wrote:

> Superimposition is the mechanism whereby the snake is placed

> on the rope, mis-taken for or confused with the rope. The

> word con-fusion implies this action.

>

> There is a problem re boys/sky as frying pan(wok) in respect

> of the rebuttal of the objection that superimposition must be

> between two perceivable things. I believe his answer changes

> the paradigm from confusion to illusion.

 

That's nicely expressed.

 

Warm regards,

Chittaranjan