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THE METHOD CF PHILOSOPHY
words which possess nice distinctions of meaning as if they all mcant exactly the samo thing. Pride and conceit may be taken to be fairly good instances of words which, if taken to mean exactly the same mental trait, would give rise to this fallacy.
(7) Evambhūtâbhâsa lies in asserting that the existence of a thing depends on its performance of the particular function with reference to which alone it has been described, as for instance to say that a devotce is non-existent because he is no longer engaged in devotion.
The nature of the nayas and the Saptabhangi system of predication having been shown, we now proceed to a general consideration of the Tattvas.
