Cognition

An overview of the ways of knowing within the context and point of view of the different Indian Buddhist philosophical tenet systems.

The aggregate of karmic formations (Skt. samskaraskandha) contains two types of affecting variables.

We need a detailed map of all possible ways of knowing and states of mind so that we can always identify what is occurring on our mental continuum, so that we can guide ourselves toward any constructive goal.

An introduction to the system of ways of knowing (lorig), a major component of the Buddhist map of the mind. The text covers the various ways in which we cognize objects – valid, non-valid, conceptual, non-conceptual and so on.

All apprehensions explicitly apprehend one or more involved objects. Not all, however, implicitly apprehend anything.

Presumptive cognition is an invalid cognition that conceptually takes its object correctly and freshly but presumes it to be true either for no reason, a wrong one, or even a right one but without understanding why it is correct.

Conceptual cognition is a deceptive cognition, because it confuses a category and generic representation of a member of a category with a specific item. Western languages call such conceptual labeling “projection.”

An overview of the different numbers of valid ways of knowing in Indian tenet systems.

Disturbing emotions occur not only in conceptual cognitions, which are always mental cognition, but also in non-conceptual sensory and mental cognition.

Distorted cognition is a way of knowing that takes its own object in an inverted manner.