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CHAPTER IX. COUNTER-SUGGESTIONS CONSIDERED.
The seven modes of predications have been described in the preceding chapters and the Jaina thinkers maintain that in predicating about a thing all these seven modes are to be applied, in order that the real nature of it in all its aspects may be understood. As has already been pointed out, their number of seven-neither more nor less-is due to the fact that ( in the words of Vadideva ) with reference to each attribute or modo in connection with the thing, seven forms of relationships are possible; this is due to the number of questions which arise in their connection and which are seven; and the questions are seven because the doubts from which they arise are seven; the doubts again are seven in number because the aspects of the thing in connection with which the doubts may arise are soven. In short the doctrine of the seven-fold
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