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the said successes and defeats considered side by side and one after the other in their temporal order. This something was the realisation of the certain and irresistible truth that Chaing's China was wanting in self-reliance and self-confidence. This truth was not a mere subjective opinion of the politically minded thinkers nor of the warexperts but was grounded in the real nature of the Chinese people,-a truth whioh has been vindicated by the ultimate success of Mao Tse-Tung. It should be observed, however, that although this truth emerges from the positive and negative aspects of the Chinese struggles, these aspects continue to remain prominent as the back grounds of that resulting truth.
Once more we think it necessary to warn the readers from accepting the facts stated in the above examples, as absolute truths established by the Syād-vada. The examples are not intended for showing that the process of the Syad-vada has been satisfactorily applied to the cases under consideration in those examples. The examples show only problematic applications of the Sapta Bhanga to rather problematic cases.
As in the case of the foregoing two Bhangas, the same limiting determinants of time, place, nature and mood, indicated by the word "Syát”,
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