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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XIX.
What has been explained above disposes of this objection also. In the case in question, what the particular Conceptual Thought onvisages is not pure negation devoid of all specifications of time, place, etc.,-it envisages the qualified Negation in the form that at a certain place the Jar is not'; and that it is so is due to the fact that the Place, etc. have the capacity of being perceived. Thus it is that Negation is not regarded as a distinct Means or Form of Cognition ; because what is conceived is only such empty place as has been apprehended by Perception. Even if there were apprehension of pure, unqualified, Negation, the cognition apprehending it could not be regarded as valid, because it would be envisaging a non-entity; and all consideration of the validity of cognitions, by men soeking for effective action, relates to entities only.-What has been urged therefore is beneath notice.(1691)
End of Negation,
