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Denial of definite character disproved.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. thought in the forms of both suchness and unsuchness (agian and quicu) is not invalid ( alfa) like doubt or diffidence as you contend.
III. To meet the third objection in the form of your denial as to the definite character of our determination of the nature of things which are admitted to be instinct with multiplicity of character, we have to submit that our determination of the nature of things is not indefinite in itself. Why ?-Because of the fact that whatever is acknowledged by us exists only in so far as its own four-fold constituent elements in their particular combination are concerned; but relative to the fourfold constituent elements as manifest in the particular combination of the Other, the former does not exist. For, as we have seen already, the jar as such i.e. in respect of the four-fold constituent elements under particular combination making up the being and individuality of the jar, there it exists only as such and does not exist as the picture. And this logic holds good with equal force in regard to the deter
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