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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XI.
That in Cognitions, no Number exists follows from the fact that Cognitions are not Substance, while Number is a Quality and as such must subsist in a Substance.
It might be argued that in the case of Cognition, the said notion may be regarded as figurative, the sense being that 'Cognition is as if it were one', -and the absence of companion may he taken as the similarity on which the figurative expression is based
The answer to this is as follows:- Nor can the notion, etc., etc. ;-thnt is, the notion in question cannot be rightly held to be figurativo: as it is not found to be fallible. Such figurative expressions as the Ploughman is an ox' mean that the man is as if it were an ox, and not that he is an ox itself-as he clues not have the dewlap and other distinguishing features of the ox-there is no such failure (negation) in the case in question, the notion being that the cognition is one', not that it is as if it were one': as a matter of fact, the notion in regard to the Cognitions is just as infallible ay that in regard to the Jar and such things.-(639-640)
The Opponent may urge the following"The notion is described as figurative', not on the basis of similarity':--but what is meant is that the notion of 'one', etc. in regard to Quality. Action, Subsistence and so forth is based on the ground that these subsist in the same substratum as the 'oneness'. ote. subsisting in the Substance that forras their own substratum ".
This is the explanation anticipated and set forth in the following: -
TEXT (641). “THE NOTION OF One IN REGARD TO COGNITIONS IS ASSUMED ON THE BASIS OF THE One-ness SUBSISTING IN THAT SAME SUBSTANCE, ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR SUBSISTING IN THE SAME
THING",-IF THIS IS ASSERTED [then the answer is as in the following Texl]-(641)
COMMENTARY. The answer to the above is provided in the following
TEXTS (642-643). THE NUMBER ONE' MAY SUBSIST IN THE ONE COGNITION ; BUT ON WEAT BASIS DOES THE NOTION OF TWO PROCEED, IN REFERENCE TO COGNITIONS ? OR EVEN IN REGARD TO THE
Six CATEGORIES AND THE REST -THE NOTION TOO OF ITS 'SUBSISTING IN THE SAME THING' CAN ONLY BE FIGURATIVE, AND FENCE FALLIBLE,-LIKE THE NOTION OF FIRE' IN REGARD TO THE BOY.-(642-643)
COMMENTARY. If the notion of one-ness' is due to subsistence in the same substance, - then it may be so in regard to one Cognition, as also to Pleasure and the
