Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
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Purva-Paksha refers to the thoughts of predecessors. Thereās a prejudice where all Indian Philosophers, anything worth saying has already been said done in Vedas. Series of thinkers in the past, conflict, their views form a ladder. Truth can be seen by climbing the ladder (cute metaphor)
cumulative process (fu rand)
āIntellectual Tradition is a
... See moreāThe views of the preceding sages have not been polluted, but only refinedā
Critique doesn't render previous inquiry useless. Those previous views allow us to ascend the ladder and further the inquiry. Itās not something to be discarded.