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The Jaina world of Non-living
illuminatory and other functions last for many moments. The group does not have ascertainment and ascertainability together as the momentary entities cannot form a group. Q. It is said that group of momentary sounds forms syllables and sentences. Similarly, actions may also form group of actions. A. This is also not correct. The momentariness of sounds themselves is not proved as they are heard by people at distant places and times. This audibility cannot be proved by stating that sounds cause other sounds leading to a chain to be received by distant listener, as any momentary entity cannot initiate other entity. It cannot produce another sound at the moment it is itself produced. It can also not produce another sound in later moment as it itself becomes non-existent at this moment.
The time of appearance is the moment which has to come into immediate existence. However, this moment has no existence in the immediate moment. Thus, there can never be anyway for producing another sound.
The intelligence is the base for the seeds of impressions carried through earlier knowledge. This intelligence can also not have group-assumption as it has also the same nature of momentariness. However, the group of action can be formed under those systems which have the postulate of action being substantively permanent and modally non-permanent. Similarly, the intelligence may also have dual characteristic of permanencecum-non-permanence, thus, becoming the base of impressions. This type of intelligence can have the tendency to ascertain others through the group of action caused by the potentiality and individuality. This group of action attains the designation of time due to its continued existence. Thus, the existence of apparent time is proved which also ascertains the existence of absolute time. 28. Q. Why the terms 'priority and posteriority' have been mentioned separately in the aphorism ? Let there be the coupling compound here.
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