ABSTRACT
There are many different views that go by the name of antirealism. All schools of Indian epistemology agree, for instance, that perception is a means of knowledge. What substantive disagreement there is concerns just how 'perception' is to be defined, that is, what the conditions are under which sensory stimulation causes cognitions that veridically represent the world. Indian realists responded to this attack on the epistemological enterprise by claiming that a given cognitive process may be both a means of knowledge and an object of knowledge. A realist epistemology would have it that a belief-forming process is reliable just to the extent that the cognitions it produces tend to represent the nature of the object. The realist will protest that people can after all come to know what it would be like for the world to be a certain way quite apart from people's mode of conceptualization.
