Studies in Indian Philosophy

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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qualifier and 'R' is a qualification relation between them. When this description of a cognition is expanded in the technical language of the Nyāya, it takes the following form :.
The cognition in which the property of being the qualificand resident in a is limited by a-ness and determined by the property of being the qualifier resident in b and the latter property is limited by b-ness and R.
This description of a cognition can be brought closer to our understanding in terms of the role and the mode of presentation of an object of cognition. The object a is playing the role of a qualificand under the mode of a-ness. In some other context the same object might play some other role under the same mode or some other mode of presentation. Similarly, the object b is playing the role of qualifier under the mode of b-ness and the relation R. In this context it is to be noted that this expansion of the cognition a R b is applicable to those cases where the qualificand and the qualifier are cognised under some mode of presentation which is expressed by a property-denoting expression. In the cognition expressed by the expression 'a blue pot, a pot is the qualificand, a blue colour is the qualifier and the inherence relation is the qualification. Here the property of being the qualificand is limited by potness and the property of being the qualifier is limited by both blueness and the inherence relation. But in the cognition expressed by the expression 'a pot, the property of being the qualificand resident in a pot-individual is not limited by another property and the property of being the qualifier resident in potness is not limited by another property. The property of being the qualifier is limited by the relation of inherence only. So there are two types of the property of being the qualificand and the property of being the qualifier depending upon whether they are limited by a property or not.
The distinction between the relation limited by and the relation determined by can be expressed in the following way :