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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XIX.
nature (a) they have the capacity of bringing about cognitions-or (b) they do not have this capacity.
If they have the said capacity, then the Cognition producible by these should be there always at all times; because their nature, being eternal, could not be obstructed by anything ; because a thing to which on account of its Eternality) no peculiarities can be added, can never, for that reason, be obstructed.
If, on the other hand, they do not have the capacity, then, in the absence of the capacity, the cognition producible by them could never be there. So where would be the use of the Indicator ?
For these reasons, it is not possible for the Gestures, which are held to be eternal, to have any 'indicators'. If they are non-eternal, however, it is possible for a new character to be produced by the Indicators, and hence in this case, the presence of Indicatives would be logical.
It has been asserted that "They are held to be eternal, like Letters, on the ground of Recognition ".-The answer to that is- As regards Recognition, etc. etc.' ;for the proving of cternality (the Probandum), Recogni. tion has been put forward as the Probans ; and this Recognition has been already rejected under the examination of the Permanence of Things (Chapter VITI).-(1639-1640)
It has been argued (under Text 1602 et seg.) that "The absence of Chaitra having been oognised through Negation, etc. etc.".
The answer to that is as follows:
TEXTS (1341-1343).
IT CANNOT BE RIGHT TO DEDUCE THE FACT OF CHAITRA BEING OUTSIDE
THE HOUSE FROM THE FACT OF HIS ABSENCE IN THE HOUSE, BECAUSE, THERE BEING A CHANCE OF HIS HAVING DIED, THE LATTER FACT IS CAPABLE OF ANOTHER EXPLANATION ALSO.-IY IT IS THE ABSENCE OF THE living MAN IN THE HOUSE THAT IS MEANT TO BE THE BASIS OF THE PRESUMPTION BRINGING ABOUT THE IDEA OF HIS BEING OUTSIDE,
THIS ALSO CANNOT BE RIGHT; AS THE ELEMENT OF CERTAINTY WOULD BE LACKING. WHEN A MAN WITH ORDINARY POWERS OF VISION DOES NOT SEE Chaitra IN THE HOUSE, HE CAN HAVE NO CERTAIN COGNITION REGARDING HIS BEING alive.-(1641-1643)
COMMENTARY.
Another explanation ;-it is possible for Chaitra to be absent in the House, without being outside.