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name 'Atom' (Small) itself would not be possible.-Why 1- Because it is the extremely, eke. This is easy to understand.-(562-563)
With the following Text, the Author proceeds to answer the above arguments (of the Realists) :
TEXT (564).
IN THE CASE OF THE Rock-crystal (CITED ABOVE), The Rook-ORYSTAL
IS PERCEIVED AS red IN COLOUR ; AND YET, IN REALITY, IT CANNOT BE RED;--AS THAT WOULD DEMOLISH YOUR
OWN THEORY.-(564)
COMMENTARY
It has been asserted that the Rock-crystal and such things are perceived even when their Qualities are not perceived"; but this cannot be admitted; because the said perception, being not in accordance with the reality, must Lo wrong, and henco baseless. For instance, whon the red Hibiscus flower is placed adjacent to the Rook-crystal, tho latter is perceived as Red, which it is not similarly when the Line of Cranes are perceived as Dart (in the dark) when they are really White. Neither of these two things-Rockcrystal and the Cranes-are really of the Colour as perceived ;-i.e. of the Red or the Dark colour.-" Why?"-Because that would demolish your own theory i.e. if they were really of the Colour that is perceived, then your theory, just mentioned, -that things are perceived even when their Colour is not perceived, would become demolished.-(564)
The Opponent might argue that "the Rock-crystal itself is perceived, apart from the Colour". This is answered in the following
TEXT (565)
APABT VROM THE COLOUR, NOTHING ELSE IS PERORIVED OF THE NATURE OF SOMETHING DIFFERENT; AND IT CANNOT BE RIGHT, EVEN
FOR YOU THAT THINGS SHOULD BE APPREHENDED BY THE COGNITION OF SOMETHING DIFFERUNT ; AS
TRAT WOULD LEAD TO AN ABSURDITY.-(565)
COMMENTARY
As a matter of fact, apart from the Red Colour, nothing else of the nature of something different,-i.c. in the shape of the Rock-crystal is perceived : as all that is actually perceived is the Red Colour.-If it be urged that " what is perceived as Red-coloured is the Rock-crystal itself which is not really red",-then our answer is that it cannot be right, etc. etc.';-ie. when a Cognition is regarded as appertaining to a particular thing, it is on the basis
