Negative Facts and Knowledge of Negative Facts *

Negative facts have perplexed Western philosophers ever since the time of Plato. ¹ But the philosophers of Europe and America have not been the only philosophers to have been perplexed by them; classical Indian philosophers too have pondered their nature. My interest here is to explore how the reflections of these classical Indian philosophers, transposed into the contemporary philosophical idiom, might enrich current metaphysical thinking about negative facts; and what I shall conclude is that at least one of these philosophers has a view of negative facts sind knowledge of them, which, when so transposed, is very plausible indeed.