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**Dimaatrushti:** Such a vicious argument!
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It is baseless, without support, and unfounded. With the strength of this example, someone might argue that just as this knowledge is baseless and false, so too are all other knowledge, like mirage, baseless and false. The water in a mirage is baseless, not real, but appears as a false illusion, so all knowledge is baseless and false. If someone argues in this way, using the example to discredit all knowledge, claiming it is baseless, unsupported, and unfounded, how can it be refuted? Nothing. This argument cannot be refuted, this is just an example; therefore, what wise person would rely on such an argument that leads astray, drives one mad, and leads one down the wrong path?
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And it is said that it does not lead to the truth:
सर्व सर्वत्र चाप्नोति यदस्मादसमञ्जसम् । प्रतीतिबाधितं लोके तदनेन न किंचन ॥ ९७ ॥
From this, everything is obtained everywhere, which is illogical. In the world, that which is contradicted by perception, nothing is obtained from it, 97.
Meaning: Because this argument leads to everything everywhere, which is illogical (unreasonable) and contradicted by perception in the world, therefore, nothing is obtained from this argument, it has no purpose.
It is so.
Analysis
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And thus, this argument does not lead to any kind of truth, because this argument leads to everything everywhere, anything can be achieved anywhere. By discrediting a particular example, a particular point is proven, and then this argument is applied everywhere! One stick is used to beat everyone! This is an extreme generalization, illogical, unreasonable, and inappropriate. Moreover, this argument is also contradicted by perception in the world.
Vicious argument
Commentary: Sarve-sarva, the goal is to achieve everything without exception, sarvatra 2-sarvatra, moreover, it is obtained in everything everywhere, chachasmāt—if this argument, asamangahram-illogical, (ayathāy),—due to extreme generalization. Pratitiāshit sra-in the world, that which is contradicted by perception, such, from the mere strength of such an example, tanen na chin-therefore, from this-this opportunity, nothing is obtained, (it has no purpose).