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[anumāna]/ Inferential cognition; inferential understanding. A direct conceptual understanding of an obscure phenomenon, generated in reliance upon a correct reason, e.g. the cognition of the impermanence of a vase. There are two types of inferential cognition:\n1. {rang don rjes dpag} [svārthānumāna]/ inference for self\n2. {gzhan don rjes dpag} [parārthānumāna]/ inference for others; or\n1. {rjes dpag yang dag} the correct inference\n2. {rjes dpag ltar snang /} the imperfect inference.
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