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are either identical with that singled-out feature in some respects or different from it. In the former case, there cannot be any question that the relationship found to subsist between the singled-out feature and the thing would also apply to the case of the remaining other features. A little consideration would show that the latter case also should present no difficulty. In philo sophy, we deal with the ultimate conditions of all relations. All features or attributes of a thing-no matter whether they are similar to or different from each other,-are but the fundamental features and attributes of the thing; so that the ultimate conditions that govern the relationship of one of them to the object would also govern that between the other attributes and the thing.
Before we consider those ultimate conditions of relationship between a thing and its features, we may briefly note some points regarding the features themselves. As stated above, they may be treated either as identical with or different from each other. Where such sucoessful identification or differentiation is not possible, much useful purpose may be served by a reasonable application ( Upachara ) of the principles of iden. tification or differentiation, as the case may be. Let us take the example of a mango-fruit, huving
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