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OTHER FORMS AND MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE.
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TEXT (1637). " THOSE ACTIONS THAT ARE SEEN SUBSISTING IN PERCEPTIBLE THINGS ARE ALL HELD TO BE ETERNAL, LIKE THE LETTERS IN THE
WORD,-ON THE GROUND OF RECOGNITION."-(1637)
COMMENTARY. "We hold the letters to be eternal, on the ground of Recognition ; in the same way, the gestures made by the Hand also are eternal; hence the * Shaking' (of the Hand) that has been cited is devoid of the Probandum',[i.e. it is not non-eternal]; hence that does not falsify our Premiss"(1637)
Question :-If this is so, and the Gestures of the Hand, etc. are eternal, how is it that these are not cognised always ?
Answer (from the Opponent):
TEXT (1638).
“ THAT THESE ARE NOT APPREHENDED ALWAYS IS DUE TO THE ABSENCE OF THE INDICATOR. WHAT WOULD BE THE PRODUCER UNDER YOUR THEORY IS REGARDED BY US AS THE
* INDICATOR'."-(1638)
COMMENTARY. Thesei.e. the Gestures, are not apprehended always ' ;-just as, under your theory, the Gestures are not perceived always, because of the absence of the producer,--s0, under our view also, it is because of the absence of the indicator; so that the same explanation is available for both of us.' This is what the Opponent means.-(1638)
The above argument is answered as follows:
TEXTS (1639-1640).
IT CANNOT BE SO; SO LONG AS THE CAPACITY IS NOT OBSTRUOTED, ITS COGNITION SHOULD BE THERE ALWAYS ; IN THE ABSENCE OF THE SAID CAPACITY, IT SHOULD NEVER BE THERE AT ALL.
THUS NO INDICATORS 'ARE POSSIBLE FOR THE GESTURES. AS REGARDS RECOGNITION INDICATING eternality, THAT HAS BEEN ALREADY REJECTED.
-(1639-1640)
COMMENTARY.
There are only two alternatives possible regarding the capacity of the Gestures which are held to be 'indicated' by certain indicators :-By their