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receptacles for these different qualities. The reply is that although a tree is only one receptacle, it contains both the qualities of stability and mobility, A thing can have red, black and yellow colours at the same time. Thus the pluratistic view of things is sound.
(3) The pluralistic argument is liable to the
fallacy of Anavastha which means absence of finality in a series of statements. Statement after statement is made about the pot without observing any established rule regarding the finality of things. The answer is that we have already proved that it thing contains a number of qualities, and in predicating these qualities in regard to it, no such fallacy is incurred.
This argument is liable to the fallacy of confusion (Sankar) inasmuch as many confusing things are said of the same object. The answer is that what we say of it, is established by actual experience. This fallacy steps in only when
