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either non-connected with them or as depending on another connexion; we are therefore not obliged to assume another connexion, and again another, and so on, and thus to allow ourselves to be driven into a regressus in infinitum.Your defence is unavailing, we reply, for it would involve the admission that conjunction (samyoga) also as being eternally connected with the things which it joins does, like samavâya, not require another connexion'. If you say that conjunction does require another connexion because it is a different thing”, we reply that then samavâya also requires another connexion because it is likewise a different thing. Nor can you say that conjunction does require another connexion because it is a quality (guna), and samavâya does not because it is not a quality ; for (in spite of this difference) the reason for another connexion being required is the same in both cases, and not that which is technically called 'quality’is the cause (of another connexion being required)".
-For these reasons those who acknowledge samavâya to be a separate existence are driven into a regressus in infinitum, in consequence of which, the impossibility of one term involving the impossibility of the entire se origination of a binary compound from two atoms can be accounted for. For this reason also the atomic doctrine is inadmissible.
14. And on account of the permanent existence (of activity or non-activity).
Moreover, the atoms would have to be assumed as either
Which is inadmissible on Vaiseshika principles, because samyoga as being a quality is connected with the things it joins by samavâya.
? Viz, from those things which are united by conjunction. The argument is that conjunction as an independent third entity requires another connexion to connect it with the two things related to each other in the way of conjunction.
3 Viz. the absolute difference of samavâya and samyoga from the terms which they connect.
Action (karman), &c. also standing in the samavâya relation to their substrates.
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