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THE DOCTRINE OF SYADVAD.
True glimpse
Its nature.
being and significance only in its relation to the rest or each of which can be known only when it is seen, in a sense, to be the rest. of the Con
crete Reality. You can not, for example, take the combination of two externally independent things in space and employ it as a representation of the relation of mind and its objects, for though thought be distinguishable from the object, it is not divisible from it. The thinker and the object thought of are nothing apart from each other. They are twain and yet one. The object is only object for the subject, the subject for the object. They have no meaning or existence taken individually and in their union they are not two separate things stuck together but two that have lost or dissolved their duality in a higher unity.
Now it is this characteristic of things which renders impossible the correct apprehension of them by ordinary mode of cognition ; because they are only to be grasped in a thought which embraces and solves contradictory elements. The ordinary or realistic way of looking at things can express and take cognizance of the nature of those things which are subject to the conditions
Reasons why the Realistic method must necessarily fail.
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