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An Account of
European thought. The syad vad says that every assertion is variable with every change in time and space. This is a common way of putting the deeper theory of time and space being the essential forms' of every percept. ion. They are two invariable agents in our determinations of objects. Every mode of looking at a thing must take into account these factors. If you introduce the slightest variation in any one of these two, the whole view is changed.
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The other two variants are and द्रव्य The recognition of Dravya or matter as being an eternal coefficient in the products of our existence and knowledge, solves certain obvious difficulties. Idealism is nursed by every school that nglects the essential relation of matter to knowledge, without it, every-thing becomes a fiction' or a mere flatus vocis. By postulating matter as an original ingrediant in knowledge, the endless webs of idealists are relegated to the realms of shadows
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