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Original-language term required. Mark Siderits defended an “indeterminate” form of one of these things in a paper on Monima Chadha’s Kantianism. One of these things is often discussed with the example of an overweight man who fasts in the day and eats at night. In a commentary on Dignaga’s apoha theory of universals, Dharmakīrti argued for a “negative” one of these things called anupalabdhi. The example of a gavaya, a buffalo similar to a cow, is often used to discuss one of these things. Through subparts including a (*) hetu “mark,” one of these links the sight of smoke to the stock example of fire on a mountain; that is anumāna, which is second (-5[1])only to (-5[1])pratyakṣa (10[2])among these things. Though there are classically six of these things, (10[1]-5[1])the Nyāya school recognizes four, and the (10[1])Vaiśeṣika (“vye-SHESH-ick-uh”) school only two, whose names roughly translate to “inference” and “perception.” (-5[1])For 10 points, name these “sources of knowledge” in Indian epistemology. ■END■ (10[2]0[3])

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