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things, it is not however to be thought that affirmation is not more than negation and that a positive thing is nothing additional to a summer tion of negative phenomena. A matter affirmed presents some aspects and features. The denial of the matter presents also some aspects and features which are appreciable in their own ways. Neither affirmation alone nor negation alone can supply us with all the knowledge about a concrete reality; each has its own soope, limits and contents and each presents before us a new aspect of the object under consideration.
The Buddhist doctrine of Apoha is a notorious instance of negation being made the matter of exclusive importance. The question arose, what is the significance of a word e. g. “Cow" ? It goes without saying that the word signifies & creature with four legs, horns, tail oto., The Buddhists point out that a word is essentially & concept which is a matter of our subjectivo creation and as such, is incapable of positively expressing the objeot of our peroeption which is rigidly particular (Sva-Laksana ). According to the Buddhists, a word is essentially an Apoha or Anyapoha, as it is otherwiso called (meaning
that which shuts out others'). It is so callod because it gives rise to "& negative apprehension
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