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our illustration appears in a simple and novel aspect, when considered in and through this mode of predication and this aspect is as much real as the aspects, presented by the other Bhangas. The word, "Eva," signifies the certainty and the definiteness of the knowledge and "Syat" refers to the determinant conditions of time, place, nature and mode in respect of which the predication holds good.
The first of the two judgments, which constitute the predication, presents the positive elements of the object. We have seen that the word, " inexpressible” although it does not bg itself signify any element, nevertheless points to an aspect of the objective reality which is the result of a simultaneous attribution of the positive and the negative features to an object. Although synthetioally, the fifth Bhanga expresses but one undivided aspect of reality, analytically it is constituted of the two following propositions, - (1) It exists ( 2 ) It exists and does not exist. It should be observed that the two propositions do not involve any real duplication. The first proposition affirms the elements of existence and the first part of the second proposition, although it refers to the same elements of existence, is simultaneously joined to the elements of non
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