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the purview of the other modes of predications. The seventh predication is a combination of the first, the second and the fourth forms of prodications; or, it may be looked upon as the third and the fourth forms conubined. Inspite of the fact that it is & compound of a number of predications, the seventh predication yields a novel and unitary idea, and the aspect of reality which is the object of the idea is also novel and unitary. In other words, as the idea of the mango-tree as fruit-bearing in some respects, then, not-fruit-bearing in some respects and inexpressible in some respeots, is different from the idea of the mango-tree, simply as fruitbearing or as not-fruit-bearing or as inexpressible, 80 the mango-tree as a reality as fruit-bearing under certain conditions, then as not-fruit-bearing under certain conditions and then as inexpressible in some respects, is different from the mangotree simply as fruit-bearing, or simply as notfruit-bearing or simply as inexpressible. As in the case of the other Bhangas, the idea and the reality, involved in the seventh Bhanga,-each of which synthetically is after all but one simple unity though analytically complex,-are certain and definite-as the indeolinable “Eva " attached to the proposition signifies. And lastly, the word
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