The Importance of Foundational Cognitions

The Vedic tradition was coming under fire from Buddhists Jainas and others. Kumarela is so confident in the sources of human knowledge that for him the absence of a cognition supporting something is a good reason to reject it, as long as conditions are favorable. The most far-reaching aspect of the Mimamsa view on the beginninglessness of the Veda is their inference that language itself must have no beginning.