As I was saying (prev.post), when hieratic realism tries to intellectually resolve the problem of error philosophy is born. The witty ironism of Vedanta is to analolgise error itself as having the same form as perception. Error is defanged and sways to the philosopher’s flute. Whether the rope seems a snake or the snake seems a rope there has been a superimposition (adhyasa) of the object on the subject. This is the ontological ground beyond which we cannot dig. The focus on the psychological basis of error severally; memory, faulty sensory input, organic loss of function etc., is very interesting but it does not touch the ontological event.
The next concern must be - what is the nature of the object such that it can come in some sense to be ‘in’ the subject.
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