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assertions be seven, neither more nor less and its answer; genesis of sevenfold assertions (117–120); Vedāntis.'s denial of the second proposition; first two propositions logically valid and psychologically necessary (120); Logical and ontological considerations; propositions can be viewed both as analytical and synthetical according to our intellectual equipment and psychological interest (121— 122): Unguarded predication -- a source of confusion and misconception; Syāt a corrective proviso (122); Why further combinations not possible (123—125); The import of the seven propositions (126-133). Sec. II. Import of each term of the propositions (133—136); The negative proposition is as much true as the affirmative one; non existence belongs to jar and not to what is not jar as the Naiyāyika would have us believe; The Vedantist complaint of contradiction and the Jaina answer; The Naiya. yika's belief that certain facts are always existent and their opposites are inconceivable and the vindication of the Jaina position (137—142); the determinate nature of existence and non-existence
- conception of svarūpa and pararūpa — other determinants viz., substance, time and locationexternal and internal determinations (142–148); The problem of the relation of subject and predicate in the proposition “the self exists” (148–150). Sec. III. Survey of the remaining five propositions (150—151); each proposition constitutes an estimation of reality, which has been either advocated by a school of philosophers as a matter of historical fact or is capable of being entertained as possible evaluation (151–153); The theory of sevenfold predication regarded as a logical elaboration of the position of the Jaina; its universal application illustrated (153—159); Consideration of the objection advanced against the theory as a
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