Dignaga

Dignaga was a really smart person who lived a long, long time ago in India. He was kind of like a superhero, but instead of fighting bad guys, he wanted to learn all the secrets of the universe.

Dignaga was very curious, and he wanted to figure out how our minds work and how we know things. He was especially interested in how our eyes see things and how we can remember them.

So, Dignaga studied and studied all kinds of things, like math and logic and grammar. And eventually, he came up with some really important ideas about how we know what we know.

One of the things he figured out was that our minds don't see things directly, like a camera does. Instead, our minds create images of things based on what we see and our past experiences. This is called perception.

Dignaga also believed that we can't just trust everything we see or hear. We need to use logic and reason to figure out what is really true.

But his most important idea was the idea of "inference." Inference is when we use what we know to figure out something we don't know. Like when we see footprints in the snow and infer that someone has been walking there. Dignaga believed that inference was the key to all knowledge.

So, Dignaga was a really important person who helped us understand how our minds work and how we know things. And we still use his ideas today to learn about the world around us.