The Paralysis of Skeptical Challenges

Jayarashi is happy to admit in fact that normal people have an ordinary kind of knowledge. Sri Hasha points out that counterfactual inferences themselves stand in need of justification. The Thinkers of Mimamsa insisted the Vedas are an indispensable source of vital truths. But ancient Indian thinkers of the Shramana traditions posed other skeptical challenges which had more practical implications.