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EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST CATEGORY
SUBSTANCE
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than all this.--The qualification while being perceptible' has been added with a view to those qualities in the Atom which are produced by Firecontact.-Nor can Sound be a quality of the Soul ;-a) because it is perceptible by an external sense-organ-(b) because it is perceptible by other Souls,(c) because it is perceived as distinct from the I-notion'; while all qualities of the Soul, such as pleasure and the rest are otherwise than all this. Sound cannot be a quality of Space, Time and Mind,-because it is appre. hended by the Auditory Organ.-Thus, by elimination, Sound can be the quality of Aleisha, of which, therefore, it becomes the indicative.-This Äkäsha, having Sound as its only common Indicative, and having no other specific indicatives, must be one ;-and as having its qualities perceptible everywhere, it must be all-pervading and having a quality, and itself not subsisting in anything else, it must be a substance ;-and as it is not created (by any one), it must be permanent."
Such is the process of reasoning put forward by the other party (in proof of Alăsha as a Substance).
The following Texts sets forth his roasonings in support of Time being a Substance :
TEXTS (623-624). "THE NOTION OF Priority. Posteriority AND SO TORTH MUST HAVE FOR ITS BASIS SOMETHING OTHER THAN MOBILE SUBSTANCES LIKE THE SUN,-LIKE THE NOTION OF THE JAR AND SUCH THINGS,
-BECAUSE IT IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT IN CHARACTER FROM THE NOTION OF wrinkles, grey hairs, emaceation AND SO FORTH AND IT IS THIS BASIS, CAUSE, WHICH IS HELD TO
BE Time","-(623-624)
OOMMENTARY.
"The term mobilo substances should be taken as standing for * wrinkles', etc.
* Such notion as Prior, applied to the Father ;- Posterior to the Son ; simultaneous', 'for a long time', 'soon, is being done', was done', 'will be done, and so forth-all this notion of Priority and Posteriority, etc. must be based upon (due to) some substance other than the Sun and other mobile substances because they are different in character from the notion of wrinkles','grey hairs' and so forth, like the notion of the Jar and such things and that which is the basis of the said notions must be Time, as that alone has the requisito capacity. For instance, the said notion of Priority and Posteriority cannot be due to Space,-because when the old man is standing in space at the back of the younger man, he is said to be posterior'; and similarly when the Son is standing in space in front of the Father, he is said to be prior!-Nor can the said notion be due to wrinkles, grey hairs and such causes ; because it is entirely different from the notion of those.--Nor can it be due to any Action Movement), because it is different
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