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Government has carried on a vigorous campaign against Pakistan. Yet, it has declared to leave the Government of Kashmir in the hands of the people of Kashmir. In respect of Pakistan, the nature (let us say, the Dravya ) of the Indian Government is bellicose in connection with Kashmir and in respect of the people of Kashmir, the nature (Dravya ) is not bellicose. Taking together these two,-positive (bellicose) and negative (non-bellicose ) elements in the nature (Dravya ) of the Indian Union, we come to understand, not that it is indefinite or unknowable but that it is essentially * democratic ", which would not brook any interference in the affairs of a people from without, but would help them in the matter of their self-determination.
We need scarcely remind the readers that the examples given above should not be understood as having unchallengeable truths established by the correct application of the process of Syadváda. The examples given above are nothing more than supposed cases in which the process of Syadvada is attempted to be applied.
III. In the first Section above, we have seen that the simultaneous attribution of positive and negative characters (of course, from different
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