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tion by the Jains.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
in manifest opposition to the uniformly ed abandona accepted sense and signification of the ginal post terms in question ? Besides, this would
be construed as an abandonment on our part of the original position (affat 10) taken up by us in the demonstration of the logical possibility and validity of inferential knowledge (atra a) in addition to the perceptual and yielding as well to the view held by our adversary, in so far, indeed, as the epistimological side of the question is concerned, simply by a cunning display of pun upon words and terms from their etymological significations, Specially such is your position when we, Charvakas, do not admit of Pure Intuitions or Transcendental Perceptions which are impossible on your own statement to the ordinary mortals living, moving and having their being in the empirical world of ideas and ideals
Indeed! we, the Jains, reply There is
much of sense in your argument. But that of the Jain; is only apparently in as much as they vanish
le altogether like cob-webs on searching våka hypo
analysis, as we shall see presently True it is that our definition and interpretation of
Vindication
position and examination of the Char
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