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Epistemology

The theory of knowledge: what knowing is, how it is justified, and what its limits are.

Philosophy and the study of mysticism

Epistemology asks how we know what we know. The contemplative traditions add their own questions: whether there is a knowing beyond the senses and reason, how direct knowledge of the Self or God can be tested, and how inner experience can count as evidence. Indian philosophy treats these under the heading of pramāṇa.