Motif
Analogy of bodily suffering used to explain indirect knowledge
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A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Questions of King Milinda, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 35) VI, 45. / Book II. Chapter 3. / Book II. Chapter 3. / BOOK III.; lines 7805-7855 confidence: high
Nagasena asks whether those whose hands and feet have not been cut off know the sadness of such injury; the king says they know it by hearing the lamentation of those so injured.
The dialogue uses the example of hearing lamentation from people whose hands and feet have been cut off to explain how a state can be known without direct experience.
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