Buddhism considers perception (pratyaksa) to be one of two (the other being inference) valid means of knowledge (pramāna). This is uncontroversial. What is to be minimally known is the physical reality. The question whether reality includes entities other than the physical ones.
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[…] West, there is a distinction between sensation and perception. But for the East, perception means both raw sense data (sensation) and processed data of the mind (perception). This East-West distinction needs to be also kept in […]
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