The Concept of ‘Will–generated Cognition’ and its Role in Philosophical Enterprise:

Abstract

In epistemology, knowledge is the fundamental factor. In order to acquire knowledge, we have to go through various ways of knowing or the means of knowing like perception, inference, comparison, verbal testimony, presumption, non-cognition etc. In epistemology, knowledge presupposes the knowledge of something. The knowledge without content (aviṣayaka-jňāna), however, is found in case of AdvaitaVedānta. The Advaitins only admit a kind of knowledge which is of without content (aviṣayakajñāna) in case of Brahman. Brahman is the Knowledge itself. To them this knowledge has no content at all because Brahman itself is Knowledge, but not the knowledge of Brahman. In other words, we cannot tell that this is the knowledge of Brahman, but Brahman itself is Knowledge par-excellence. Apart from this system all others believe that  knowledge has got some content of its own.¹ That is why; knowledge is something through which an object is illumined. There are several ways of knowing as told earlier.