Savikalpika

(“with conceptions”) In certain schools
of Indian philosophy—among some
Buddhists, the Nyayas, and the
Prabhakara school of Mimamsa—a
term referring to complex conceptual
knowledge in which the mind puts
together and interprets data from the
senses or from memory. Since such
knowledge involves the activity of the
mind, it is susceptible to error. The
opposite sort of knowledge, called
nirvikalpaka, nonconceptual awareness, is produced directly by the operation of the senses without any interpretation. According to these schools, if the
senses producing this awareness have
no defect, such an awareness is true.