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AN EPITOME OF JAINİSM.
The whole
from sense
is thus mediate.
Now the above analysis of the successive process stages as to how the senise-given fragments to thought and feelings are generalised and compressed
into an intimate unity-a habitual mood of mind—is sufficient to indicate that whole process from sense to thought is not only indirect but mediate through and through in the acquirement of experiential knowledge. The facts of experience, mediately received, are generalised through the principle of induction in the course of which the details only re-arrange themselves into a concentrated form called, -Thought. The extra-mental realities causing sensations and feelings in us from their contact with our peripheral extremities, are not only cemented together into a unity but are stripped of their sensible nature, as it were, and are reduced to their simple equivalent in terms of thought through the operation of induction. In this way from sense-fragments and feelings, an image or idea, representative of reality, being generated, there appears next the thought or notion proper which holds the facts in unity. The principle holds good in all cases of empirical knowledge, historic or other
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