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sequences of predications. Diagram showing the possible
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After the third trial no new possibilities arise.
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(7)
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First trial
(1)
Second trial
-->(1);
Third trial
➜➜(1)
Fourth trial
exhaustive. My only
It is clear that the seven possibilities are possible criticism of Bhadrabahu is this. If the subject has given two different answers he may be aware that there is a possibility that he will later give the third. Once he has given all three, no further possibility is open. It might therefore be argued that the seventh of predication should be "asti nāsti ca avaktavyaśca”.
On the hypothesis that the subject is in a steady physiological
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