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Q. If this is the case for fineness, it should have been enumerated in the earlier aphorism 5.23 along with touch, taste etc. A. This is not correct. It has been specially enumerated here to indicate the opposite of the grossness. 26. Moreover, the two separate aphorisms have been composed with one more point in view. It indicates that the modifications of touch, taste etc. are homogeneous in character. It means that a hard touch will modify only in numerous varieties of two, three, numerable, innumerable and infinite qualities of hard touch. It cannot modify itself in other varieties of touch of different class like soft touch or heavy, light etc. types of touches. Similar will be the case of modifications of other varieties of touches. Similar will be the case of taste modifications. An astringent taste will modify itself only into different degrees of astringency without leaving its own class involving the destruction of earlier mode and originating in a newer mode. It will not modify with any other mode of taste like sour etc. It will be the same homoclass modification in case of smell too - good smell, modifying into different degrees of good smell. It will not modify into bad smell. The similar statement may be made for colour too. A while colour modifies into different degrees of white colours and not of any other colour. Q. How will you explain when hard touch modifies into soft touch, heavy touch into light touch, positive touch into negative touch, cold touch into hot touch ? Similarly, how will you explain modifications of ape taste into different tastes, one smell into different smells and one colour into different colours ? How will you also explain the modifications of one type into different types through combination of many factors? A. This type of heterogeneous modification can be explained on the basis of the fact that the general class of touch etc. is not lost and origination and desturctions cause the different modifications. For example, the class of touch will remain intact whether soft touch changes into hard, fine or cold touch. Similar statements may be made for modifications of other qualities.
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