Knowra Svasaṃvedana Svasaṃvedana Svasaṃvedana is the Buddhist philosophical thesis that a cognition is directly aware of itself while apprehending an object. It is also called reflexive awareness or self-cognition.
Reflexive awareness : Awareness that is directed toward, or includes, the awareness itself. This is the central feature svasaṃvedana attributes to each cognition.
Mādhyamaka : A Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophical tradition that analyzes phenomena as empty of intrinsic existence. Mādhyamaka philosophers, including Candrakīrti, reject svasaṃvedana as ultimately established.
Dignāga : A fifth- or sixth-century Indian Buddhist philosopher who systematized Buddhist logic and epistemology. His account of perception made self-cognition a central part of Buddhist epistemology.
Cognition : The mental process of acquiring, processing, or representing information. Svasaṃvedana makes a claim about what happens within each act of cognition.
Memory of past experience : The recollection of an earlier perception, thought, or feeling as having occurred to oneself. Proponents use such recollection to argue that the earlier cognition was self-aware.
Dignāga's theory of perception : Dignāga's account of perception, in which cognition presents both an object and itself. It gives svasaṃvedana a role within a theory of how perception works.
Yogācāra : A Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition concerned with consciousness, experience, and the construction of perceived worlds. Several Yogācāra thinkers defend svasaṃvedana as a feature of cognition.
Dharmakīrti : A seventh-century Indian Buddhist philosopher known for works on logic and the means of knowledge. He developed influential arguments for reflexive awareness and its role in memory.
Perception : The process by which sensory or mental experience presents objects or events. Buddhist accounts often locate self-cognition within perceptual episodes.
Introspection : The examination or awareness of one's own thoughts and experiences. Svasaṃvedana differs from episodic introspection by positing self-awareness within cognition itself.
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