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( 2 ) question whether a pot exists or does not exist. In regard to this question, a Realist would say that the pot exists as it is, independent of all its, mental association. It has an existence of its own and does not depend for it upon the mind. An Idealist would say that the pot has no existence in the world outside. It is simply the projection of a mental image. There is no matter outside the mind. A Nominalist would say that although it is the mind that conjures up the image of the pot, yet this can be done only at the sight of a particular sign existing outside the mind. A pot is, therefore, a sign in the outward world which calls up its image in the mind. A Buddistic philosopher would say that a pot is a flux of changes occurring every moment and has no matter except that represented by the continuous stream of changes. A modern French philosopher of great reputation, namely Mr. Bergson has taken a siinilar view of the matter. A perceptionalist of Berkeley's School would say that over and above the perceptions that we have in the mind, there is no extra-mental substratum in which these perceptions inhere. The pot, therefore, is only a
