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the fifth, the sixth and the seventh predications from the Sapta Bhanga. • The last but not the least attempt to decrease the number of the judgments of the AnekantaVåda consists in a sort of identification of the third with the fourth Bhanga. It is pointed out that both the Bhangas consist after all in apply. ing the apparently contradictory attributes to one and the same object. It is true that in the case of third predioation, the applications of the attri. butes are successive i. e. one after the other, whereas in the case of the fourth Bhanga the applications of the attributes are simultaneous. Time, however, is but a formal affair, the material point in both being the application of con. tradictory attributes to one and the same object so that there cannot be any real use in looking upon them as two separate predications. This oontention may be shown to be unsound both on formal and material grounds. In the third proposition, the two predications are made one after the other and the proposition stands as : 'the pitcher is existent and non-existent,' a compound judgment with its two elements appearing so. parate from each other. The fourth predication, although in appearance a similar compound judgment, is put in the form of a simple pro
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