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that a thing is sometimes existent and thereafter, non-existent. But the logical principle of consistonoy stands in the way of understanding & thing when it is at once existent and non-exis. tent. Kant in his Critique Of Pure Reason confined himself within the limits of logical gategories and was led to conclude that the "thingsin-themselves” were unknowable. In reply, it must be admitted that the principles of normal logio preolude the possibility of understanding an object when it puts on contradictory aspects at one and the same time. But it may be pointed out that reality is not limited within the bounds of the logical categories; it transcends the schemata of the formal logic. Admittedly a thing has more than one aspect and admittedly we bave the experience of the reality as it is. Notwithstanding the protests of the formal logic, we have, as a matter of fact, the cognition of an object with all its varied features, compresent in it. When, for example, we have the experience of the jar having the positive elements of being an earthen pot, an article existing in Pataliputra, a thing of red colour and an existent in the summer-season, have we not the simultaneous experience of its negative elements also,-viz, its not being a golden pot, an article existing in Saurashtra, a thing of blue colour and existent in
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