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METAPHYSICS
As to the first of these points it is interesting to note that Logic takes for granted certain self-evident truths; and it is no use our trying to found anything like a system of metaphysics without acknowledging them in the first instance. These truths are tersely summed up in a small work on logic (A Handbook of Deductive Logic) by S. N. Banerji, and may be enumerated as follows:(1) that there exists a material world apart from our
mind; (2) that our mind can frame exact images of things,
so that things are as we actually perceive them ; (3) that amidst the ceaseless minor changes of the
universe there is order and uniformity, so that the world remains essentially the same in all ages (past, present and future) for all observers;
and
(4) that there are or must be universal tests to dis.
tinguish truth from falsehood-rules to guide all reasoners in their way to truth, avoiding the
snares of fallacy. These are self-evident truths which you have to adopt, and it is no use our denying them. They are the very foundation of a logical vyápti, which cannot be established in their absence. Now, the first proposition of Advaitism is that the universe is an illusion, which contradict's the first and the third axioms of Logic, as laid down above, that there exists a material world
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