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THE DOCTRINE OF SYADVAD. have spoken of before. Things being so reciprocally determined what follows obvi. ously is that every factor is real so long it
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formal logic factors. In fact, we may go so far as to say that in the co-operation and the mutual to explain determination, the life of the factor consists. difference. In fact, it owes it reality, individuality and being to this relation with other factors standing and working for the common end. Or as Lotze rightly remarks “To be is to stand in relations.” Any change in the relation of any factor of the world, would then, it is quite apparent, involve a change in all the rest ; because of their mutual determination and correlativity. So nothing can be truly apprehended unless we take it in the light of not only what it is but also what it is not ; because this not-ness of the factors imparts individuality and reality to what it is. True being, it appears less paradoxical to assert, consists in self abnegation or denial of one's individuality, for where lies its individuality, its selfsufficiency, if it depends for its existence upon other realities co-operating for the
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