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savikalpaka

सविकल्पक savikalpaka

Determinate perception, the perception of an object as a thing of a certain kind ('this is a cow'), grasping the individual together with its real universal. Contrast *nirvikalpaka*.

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  • What is Nyaya? Philosophy

    …alpaka , a bare pre-verbal grasp of the thing before it is named, and savikalpaka , the determinate perception of it as a thing of a kind, "this is a cow." The point matters enormously against the Buddhists, be…

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