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ON QUALITY AS A CATEGORY.
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TEXT (658).
"IF CONJUNCTION AND DISJUNCTION WERE NOT THERE, THEN TO WHAT WOULD SUCH DISTINCT NOTIONS BE DUE AS- THIS THING IS ATTACHED TO ITTHIS IS DETACHED
FROM IT'?”—(658)
COMMENTARY.
"Further, even when there is no other difference between two things, one is said to be attached to it', and another to be detached from it-how could there be such diverse notions, if Conjunction and Disjunction did not exist, as something distinct, in the two things Y A particular notion in regard to a thing cannot be possible without the presence of something peculiar ; otherwise everything would bo possible always and everywhere." -(658)
TEXTS (659-660).
"IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS THAT EVEN WHEN ONE THING IS REALLY detached FROM ANOTHER, IT IS PERCEIVED AS attached TO IT, AND WHEN THE THING IS REALLY CLOSE TO ANOTHER, IT IS TER
CEIVED AS detached FROM IT ;-THERE ARE THESE TWO MISCOXCEPTIONS. AND A misconception HAS ALWAYS SOME PRIMARY FACTOR AS ITS COUNTERPART. THIS PRIMARY FACTOR HAS TO BE POINTED OUT IN THE TWO MISCONCEPTIONS CITED. IF SUCH A PRIMARY FACTOR IS ASSERTED, CONJUNC. TION AND DISJUNCTION BECOME
ESTABLISHED."-(659-660)
COMMENTARY.
"Further, it so happens sometimes that, even the Dham And Khaira trees are really detached from one another, and to a man standing at a distance, they appear to be close (attached) together; and in the case of the line of Cranes seated on the thin top of a tree, even though they are close together, yet they appear as if detached; both these cognitions—apprehending things as they are not,--are false, misconceptions. And as a matter of fact, no misconception is ever produced without the apprehension of a primary factor ; for instance, unless a man has had the perception of the Cow, he cannot have the inisconception, as Cow', of the Gavaya ; so that there must be somo primary factor pointed out as the basis of the said two mis. conceptions. When such a primary factor is pointed out, the existence of Conjunction and Disjunction would become established. Apart from these two, there can be no basis for the said notion."-(659-660)
