Ways of Knowing

Apprehension is an accurate, decisive cognition of its own object. Of the seven ways of knowing, bare cognition, inferential cognition and subsequent cognition are apprehensions.

An overview of objects that are not decisively cognized within the context of conceptual and nonconceptual cognition.

With non-determining cognition, the involved object of the cognition appears clearly and accurately, but without a decisive determination of it.

Subsequent cognition is an invalid awareness that apprehends what has already been apprehended.

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

An overview of the Sautrantika list of the seven ways of knowing, which include valid and non-valid ways of knowing.

This eighteenth century text concerns the mind and the ways in which it knows things, and is written from the point of view of the Gelug interpretation of the True Aspectarian branch of the Sautrantika tenet system of Indian Buddhism.

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.

These three types of comprehensible phenomena include all existent phenomena – all phenomena that can be validly known.

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