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EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST CATEGORY
SUBSTANCE.
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The following might be urged :-"How do you know that a fresh White Colour is produced, and not that the previous White Colour itself, which could not be perceived by reason of being suppressed, becomes perceptible later on, by the removal of the suppression ?"
This is answered in the following
TEXT (570).
IF THE COLOUR HAD REMAINED IN THE SAME CONDITION, THEN THERE COULD BE NO SUPPRESSION OF IT, AS THE PREVIOUS UNSUP
PRESSED COLOUR WOULD CONTINUE TO EXIST.-(570)
COMMENTARY.
This argument may be formulated as follows:-That which has not abandoned its unsuppressed charneter cannot be suppressed by anything else,-just as the same in its previous condition and under the suppressed condition also, the original Colour has not abandoned its unsuppressed character; hence this would be a proposition which is contrary to a larger proposition.
On the other hand, if it be held that, the Colour has abandoned its unsuppressed character, then it becomes established that the Colour subsequently produced is different from the original Colour.-(570)
It has been argued (under Tect 559) that " The Colour differs entirely from the Lotus, etc. etc.".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (571).
THE DIVERSE WAYS OF VERBAL EXPRESSION WHEREIN THE GENITIVE AND DIFFERENT NUMBERS ARE USED PROOEED ENTIRELY FROM
THE SPEAKER'S WHIM; HENCE IT IS NOT RIGHT TO DETERMINE THE REAL STATE OF THINGS ON THE
BASIS OF SUCH EXPRESSIONS.-(571)
COMMENTARY
If it were admitted that the use of the Genitive and other forms of verbal expression proceed precisely on the basis of the real state of things, then the existence of such things could be admitted on the basis of those expressions; as a matter of fact, however, verbal expressions proceed entirely from the whim of the speakers, and they do not depend upon the real state of things, how then can they prove the real existence of anything?
The use of the 'Genitive referred to is in such expressions as Patasya rüpa', 'Colour of the Cloth' (which, according to the other party proves the difference of the Cloth from the Colour] and the use of diverse numbers
