 Pragmatic considerations reinforce our natural tendency to take the deliverances of the sources to be veridical. We couldn’t get along in the world without knowledge, as Naiyāyikas as early as Vātsyāyana stress (1996: 2). This is a recurrent theme. Gaṅgeśa relies on “pragmatic contradiction” to refute a skeptic about inference in the Jewel’s “Hypothetical Reasoning” section (2020: 647–51):