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nirvikalpaka

निर्विकल्पक nirvikalpaka

Indeterminate perception, the bare, pre-verbal grasp of an object before it is judged to be a thing of a kind. Contrast *savikalpaka*.

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  • What is Nyaya? Philosophy

    …ishra read the terse clauses of the definition as marking two stages: nirvikalpaka , a bare pre-verbal grasp of the thing before it is named, and savikalpaka , the determinate perception of it as a thing of a k…

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