
HPI 35 - Ujjwala Jha and V.N. Jha on Nyaya
History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
The Relationship Between Niaya and Yoga
In contemporary analytic epistemology there is this distinction between externalist theories of justification and internalist theories. So to use this example of perception an externalist would say well as long as your eyesight is working properly then perception is a means of knowledge. Whereas an internalist would say no no you actually have to somehow be sure like the objection the regressive objection says you have to have some further way of being sure that your perception is working. That is really interesting. It sounds like they it sounds like they have an externalist theory of perception but an internalist theory of other sources of knowledge. And in this way particularly Niaya is related to yoga, yoga, yoga philosophy. Yoga