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PRATY AKSHA IS PAROKSHA.
must require grounds for them ; for, they cannot be self-caused. The qualities also, which these sensations reveal, cannot stand by themselves : for the qualities must be qualities of something, which not only gives them support and connection, but which as well exists extra-mentally and objectively somewhere in space. Thus through the processes of objectification and localisation we are led to the knowledge of things as extramental realities existing objectively in space. Dharaná (Hitm), thought, is but a name for this particular phase of knowledge of the thing when it is uppermost in our mind with special reference to the intensity and duration of the knowledge as such. . Such is the analysis of the sensuous perception; and this reminds us of a tendency in the modern psychology of perception to detect whether there is any interval of time between the contact and the (formation of) concept in addition to the question raised of late by the psycho-physiologists as to whether perception does not involve inference-a subject which was long ago discussed and solved by the sages of India.
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