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an Illusion pre-supposes a reality of which it is an illusion. The ' fiction of causal relation is there-fore founded upon unquestionable facts.
The Baudhas were not satisfied as yet. They took the last argument of the empirical school, the argument of ’unknowability. The relation is either true or untrue er is both true and untrue or is neither true nor untrue. If cause and effect are one, there is no reason why we should distingiush them. If they are discrete, it is useless to find out relations as their is no certainty in the relations. To say that both the alternatives are true, is opposed to experience. Lastly, to deny both the alternatives, would be to deprive every-thing of its nature. So, they conclude, that nothing can be said on the point. The answer to this sophistry is that if you call all relations to be unknowable, the things of which they are the relations also become unknowable by the same mode of reasoning. Again, the four-fold alter
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