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THE EXAMPLE OF THREADS IS APT
It is contended that the example of threads is an uneven one. For threads etc. even when independent produce some kind of effect. Indeed, there is some kind of thread which protects the skin. And one bark of a tree can bind things. But the standpoints, when they become independent, cannot promote even a little of right faith. This contention is not valid. For the critic has not understood the meaning intended. Our view is criticized by others without understanding our meaning. We have said that there is no effect of cloth in the case of independent threads. And what has been adduced is not the effect of cloth. What is it then? It is the effect of threads. And the effect of threads too is absent in threads, which are independent of the parts that compose them. Hence our proposition is established.
Again, it is observed that the effect of cloth etc. is present potentially in threads etc. Similarly the standpoints, which are independent in thought or word, can produce right belief being assisted by neressary means. Thus they possess that potentiality, and the example is therefore apt.
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