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[3] FIEITEN STIFT FT:-(The pot is and is not] The thing is defined keeping in-to view the different aspects of the first two statements an drawing a conclusion from the two. This is the third view point. Here the two statements are harmoniously co-related.
[4] FTITARIST! 99:-[ The pot can not be fully defined 1 Every thing is a coglomoration of different properties. All these cannot be enumerated at the same time in words-That is it is indesirable. The meaning is that words are generally formed from words and a word can have one meaning only at a place. It can tell us about one property only. There is no word that can comprehensively describe different properties at the same place. With this view point it is right to call a thing indescribable.
Just as it is a mistake not to call a thing indescribable it is equally a mistake to accept it as indescribable A thing may be indescribable but still we can denominate it with the word indescribable. As it can be denoted by the word 'indescribable' we must call a thing partially describable and partially indescribable and still describe it by the word indescribable, it will be like contradioting one's statement, "I am silent” by pronouncing it with one's own mouth.
In this way in the same thing can be found existence, non existence, neither existence nor non-existence and indescribability. The remaining three aspects of the doctrine should also be taken in reference to the complete knowledge of a thing. For want of scope they cannot be fully dealt with here. In this way the sevenfold doctrine can clearly be explained.
On the face of it, this doctrine, appears to be very atra
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