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EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
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TEXT (1031) NON-DIFFERENCE CONSISTS IN being of the same form ; HOW OAN THIS BE THERE IN WHAT ARE formless? WORDS BECOME SYNONYMS ONLY WHEN WHAT IS DENOTED BY THEM
$ ONE AND THE SAME.-(1031)
COMMENTARY. Question -" If there is no one form in formless things, why should words not be synonymous ? "
Answer :- Words become synonyms, etc. etc. (1031)
The following might be urged-" If among formless things, there cannot be presence of the same form, in reality.-even so it would be there in imaginary form ; and on the basis of that the incongruity of all words being synonymous can be rightly urged ".
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TEXT (1032) JUST AS, EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF FORM, THERE IS IMAGINARY UNITY (UNIFORMITY), IN THE SAME MANNER, difference ALSO COULD
BE IMAGINARY ; WHENCE THEN COULD THE
WORDS BE SYNONYMOUS ?-(1032)
COMMENTARY. In the absence of form '-i.e. in the absence of any characteristic features. -(1032)
Question :-" If that is so, then how is there any such notion among people that these words are synonymous, and those others are not synonymous ? Answer:
TEXT (1033).
IN REALITY, WORDS ARE NEITHER SYNONYMOUS NOR NOT-SYNONYMOUS ; AS IT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED THAT WHAT IS DENOTED BY THEM
IS NEITHER one and the same NOR diverse.-(1033)
COMMENTARY.
If what is denoted by words were really different or non-different, then they could be either synonymous or not-synonymous. As a matter of fact, however, it has been explained above (under Tect, 871) that neither Specifio Individuality, nor the Universal, nor what is possessed of the Universal, can be really denoted by words.-(1033)
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