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ON QUALITY' AS A CATEGORY.
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brings up the 'Conjoined things'; what happens is that ho notices that the two things, which were previously in the condition in which there was an interval of space between them, have subsequently come into the condition in which they have come into juxtaposition,-these things come to be spoken of as 'conjoined things'; as it has been already proved that the term Conjunction connotes only a particular condition of things. So that whenever one finds two things in this particular condition in which they become expressible by the term 'conjoined things, one brings these, and none others. No intelligent person ever acts on the strength of words, in regard to what is not expressed by those words.--(666)
It has been argued (under Text 658, above) that-"To what would such distinct notions be due as this thing is attached to it-this is detached from it'?
The answer to this is provided in the following
TEXT (667).
WHEN A THING IS PRODUCED IN THE detached FORM, IT BECOMES THE
BASIS FOR THE NOTION OF BEING DETACHED '; ON THE OTHER HAND, WHEN IT IS PRODUCED IN THE attached FORM, IT BECOMES THE BASIS OF THE NOTION OF BEING ATTACHED JUST AS IN THE CASE OF THE House, THE Vindhya mountain AND THE Himalaya
mountain.-(667)
OOMMENTARY.
As a matter of fact, it is a distinct object that is produced in a particular form that becomes the basis of a distinct notion; hence the Reason urged by the Opponent is Inconclusive. This is the upslot of the Text as a whole.
The construction is the tling that is produced in the detached form becomes the basis for the notion of being detached'. On the other land, - i.e. when it is produced as not-detached.
Just as in the case of the House, etc. etc.';-these form examples of the said two notions.-Even under the doctrine of the opposite party, when two Houses have been produced is attached to one another, and are therefore of the nature of Conjunction itself, there is no other Conjunction which serves as the basis of their being attached':-similarly when two Houses have been produced as detached, there is no other Disjunction which forms the basis of the notion of their being detached'.- In the case of the Elimälayt and Vindhya Mountains also, the notion of their being detached' is not dus to any other thing in the shape of Disjunction 's--because your own idea is that · Disjunction consists in separation following after Contact [and certainly there never has been any contact between the two mountains). -(667)
