The Nyaya school holds that there are four valid means of knowledge: perception (pratyaksha), inference (anumana), comparison (upamana), and sound, or testimony (shabda).
In "Why Bother to Think," an address he delivered last year at the University of North Carolina, where he has taught since 1990, Mr. Blackburn said, "People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up".
In genuine moral knowledge, perception of the situation at hand blends seamlessly with the right response to it.
Sometimes we must simply surrender to the unfamiliar, to the limitations of our knowledge, perception and language.
The MATICCE study protocol included a Knowledge, Perception and Information (KPI) training intervention targeting this implementation domain.
Questions were categorised to elicit patients' demographic characteristics, knowledge, perception and practice of various lifestyle-modification measures.
To explore the degree of knowledge, perception, and practice of emergency contraception (EC) within marital relations in Egypt.
Three hundred independent and managed smallholders in Peninsular Malaysia were interviewed to collect information on the groups' knowledge, perception, expectation and willingness to participate in the certification scheme.
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of CIT training on police officers' knowledge, perception, and attitude toward persons with mental illness.
Despite the increasing motivation to conserve areas where humans live and work, the conservation of urban biodiversity rarely takes citizens' knowledge, perception, and needs into account.
He made a number of contributions in various areas of philosophy, including important work on knowledge, perception, action, freedom, truth, language, and the use of language in speech acts.
