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THEORY OF RELATIVITY
(717) 'Is', 'is not', 'is and is not', 'is indescribable', 'is and is indescribable', 'is not and indescribable', and 'is, is not and is indescribable'-these seven predications, each containing the word 'syat' constitute predications of the form of Pramāņa.
(718) Each substance grasped in the form of 'this substance' etc. is of the nature of something existent, the same grasped in the form of 'a substance other than this one' etc. is of the nature of something non-existent.
(719) When grasped in both the above forms it is of the nature of samething existent as well as non-existent, when simultaneously grasped in both the above forms, it is something indescribable in three additional forms, in as much as, it is at the same time also treated as something existent, something nonexistent, or something both existent and non-existent.
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(720) 'Is', 'Is not', 'is and is not', 'is indescribable', 'is and is indescribable' 'is not and is indescribable', and 'is, is not and is indescribable these very seven predications, pertaining to a substance, when characterized by 'syat' (in some respect are called improper nayas
(721) When one property of a thing is grasped, the property opposed to it is also grasped automatically because both these properties constitute the nature of this thing. Thus in respect of nature of all things, the afforesaid predications are to be made.
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(722) That (knowledge) which reveals the multiple aspects of the things in an indirect form and is free from any doubt etc. is designated as scriptural knowledge.
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