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Criticism of the Solutions offered by
Realistic.
unity in our conception of things by thinking them as individual entities each endowed with manifold qualities. They are substances the Jaina according to philosophers, which possess various properties such as extension, solidity, weight, colour étc. Or they are substances or subjects to whom belong the capa cities of sensation, feeling, and perception etc. But a careful observation will show that such a device obviously fails to give us any real apprehension of existence--even though it may be the simplest individual existence ; because in trying to give unity to a number Idealistic of unconnected determinations by ascribing them to a common substance what we really do is to add to these determinations another determination, equally isolated and unconnected with the rest. Take away the other determinations what will be left of your substance? It is impossible to explain the known by the unknown. So to apprehend the real unity of different qualities or to put in other words, to think them as one, what mind demands is, that we should think or have a rational notion of the relation of each to each and that we should discern how the
solutions superside the Realistic.
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