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CHAPTER V. THE FOURTH PREDICATION.
Syadavaktavya Eva Ghatab.
Syat-avaktavga Eva Ghatah. In some respects, the pitcher is certainly inexpressible. This is the fourth form of predi. cation, -the pitcher is indescribable. In the case of our example of the pango-tree, this fourth proposition would be:
In some respects,t he mango-tree is certainly inexpressible.
It should be remembered, however, that the inexpressibility which is attributed to the pitcher and to the mango-tree is in connection with the attribution of existence in the first case and ' fruit-bearing' in the other. The ascription of inexpressibility to the object in the fourth Bhanga is thus not absolute; it is always in connection with the application of certain aspect or attribute
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