If momentary cognitions can be self-presenting without any underlying persistent witness, the self-illumination argument establishes reflexivity but not the existence of a unitary, unchanging witnessing consciousness Śaṅkara requires.
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A property of a relation R on W such that every state w stands in relation R to itself; corresponds to the Veracity axiom in epistemic logic (what is known is true)
The non-objectifiable subject that stands behind cognitive intentionality and cannot attend to itself as an object.
Śaṅkara(as a historical philosopher being compared to Rāmānuja)
An influential Indian philosopher (8th century) who founded a major school of Hindu philosophy teaching that only God (Brahman) is ultimately real and everything else is illusion.