ABSTRACT

(1) When we consider the history of thought in Greece, we find that metaphysics first develops out of mythology 1 and it is only when metaphysical speculation attains a certain maturity and results in the formulation of a variety of theories that an interest is shown in the problem of knowledge and epistemological questions are first mooted. 2 If we turn to the Indian context we can trace an analogous though by no means an identical development.