Chicago Prashnottar

Author(s): Vijayanandsuri
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Pustak Pracharak Mandal

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( 40 ) fallacy of Perverse Knowledge and this fallacy is held highly objectionable by those who believe in advaitism. If you say that objects are devoid of non-existence, then you come to their having a positive existence which involves the canon of Real
Existence of phenomena. If you believe in Advaitism and also accept the statement involved in the above dogma of real existence you are directly against Advaitism which in that case can never
be established. 26. Q.-Objects have neither existence nor
non-existence. A.-Do you accept the usual meanings of
the terms existence and non-existence or attach some other meaning of your own to them. If you accept the usual sense of these terms you will have to admit that where a thing does not exist it is non-existent and when it exists it is not non-existent. These two propositions are contradictory. If you reject one you must admit the other. Here is no scope for ar indescribable unreality. If you attad