Dharmakīrti
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#Dharmakirti
Dharmakīrti · c. 600–660 CE
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“He rebuilt Buddhist logic so thoroughly that for the next thousand years, every philosopher in India — Buddhist or not, friend or enemy — had to argue on his terms.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Something is real only if it can do something — and everything we rightly believe rests on just two supports: what we perceive and what we can validly infer from it.”
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- The Great PhilosophersDharmakīrti is Chapter 66 of Vol 2, Late Antiquity & the Early Medieval World.
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