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it is a form of mattergy and it has manyness. Secondly they do not agree to permanent non-eternality of words. Their material nature imposes upon them basic permanence with changing qualities. The arguments and counter-arguments in this regard are tabulated in Table 4 where, again, we find that percievability and various qualities dominate the field of logic. They have given six-fold arguments that as the words can not be the quality of tactile substances, they must be quality of space. The Jainas, on the other hand, argue that :
(a) Words are material because they contain many qualities.
(b) They are substrates for many realities like us.
(c) The space qualityship is proved to be inconclusive with the examples of air, taste etc. which are contactile qualities. The words are with form and movements.
(d) The words are not totally permanent. Table 4 : Supporting and non-supporting logistics regarding
mattergic nature of sounds/words24. N. V., Mimāmsaka School
Jaina School 1. Word is not a reality as Word is a reality as (a) it is substrate of a perva- It is not a substrate but a sive reality ( space ). substratum of many qualities
like touch, slowness, loudness, numericality, conjuction
etc. (b) it is substrate as it is per- The reality can also be per
ceived by an external ceived by external sense,
sense. (c) It is not action as it does it does have action or motion
neither cause conjunction/ despite its non-livingness. disjunction nor it is eye percievable despite its
non-eternal nature. 2. The word is a substrate as it See ( a ) above. It is also
is a quality like colour etc. dependant on many realities.
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