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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
valid Validity can well be established by the actual sensory contact of the object conceived. The conception thus becomes something general, universal in character, which differentiates itself, so to
Conception speak, without losing its unity and character,
to the Kanan-body.
into so many individual actual objects capable of being presented to the senses, The individual objects, the subject-matter of the perceptual organ, becomes so many concrete embodiments of the conception itself which cannot be, like the former, presented to the senses. From the point of view of the perception also, it may be shown that they are unintelligible, unless they are interpreted with the light of the concept itself. An individual, or a single perception, caused by the actual contact of the object with the senses, remains unintelligible, unless it is subsumed under its respective concept which is, again, nothing but perceptions universalised. The conception we thus see, is the perception itself in its universal character and' embodies itself in the actual objects forming the subject-matter of the perceptual organism (eft int)and the perception is nothing but specific differen
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