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ON QUALITY AS A CATEGORY.
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its appearance is dependent upon the absence of several things, the notion of being disjunct", in the case of two rams and such things, must be due to the particular things themselves, irrespectively of the Disjunction' postulated by the other party, just like the notion of being disjunct that appears in relation to two Rams living far apart, or that which appears in relation to the Himalaya and the Vindhya Mountains.
Question :-"What is the reason that annuls the conclusion contrary to the Probandum in the above reasonings—which would preclude the presence of the Reason in something where the Probandum is known to be absent ?"
Answer: The reason annulling, etc. etc. That is, the fact that the subsistence of one thing in several things cannot be right, has been shown in detail in the Chapter on the Composite Whole', under Text 607 (above): hence it is not set forth here.—(672-674)
The author proceeds to set forth objections against the Qualities of * Priority' and 'Posteriority :
TEXTS (075-676),
THE NAME (AND IDEA) OF PRIORITY' AND 'POSTERIORITY HAVE BEEN ASSUMED AS THE BASIS OF THE NOTIONS OF FORE AND AFT, AS
THESE NOTIONS CANNOT BE DETERMINED IN REFERENCE TO Space AND Time.-BUT JUST AS THE BLUE AND OTHER COLOURS, WHICH COME INTO EXISTENCE IN SUCCUSSION (ONE AFTER THE OTHER), COME TO BE SPOKEN OF 'PORE 'AND AFT, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO DISTINCTIONS DUE TO ANY OTHER CONDITIONS,—50 WOULD THE SAID NOTIONS BE IN REGARD TO OTHER THINGS ALSO.
(675-676)
COMMENTARY.
[The position of the Nyaya-vaishesika is as follows]— " That from which arise the notions 'this is beiore and this is after' are the Qualities named
Priority' and Posteriority, which are the basis of the said notions of fore' and 'aft respectively.-The term 'adi' is meant to include the idea also of 'fore ' And aft'. The argument may he formulated as follows:The idea of 'fore' and aft' must be based upon something other than the Jar and other things, because it is different in character from the idea of these latter,-like the idea of Pleasure, etc.-For instance, when two objects are standing towards the same direction, there appears the notion this is
