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ON QUALITY AS A CATEGORY.
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timious Chain',-it is in regard to this that the Quality in question is said to function ",-then, the answer is as follows:
TEXT (688).
TU MOMENTARY EXISTENCE OF A THING CONSISTS MERLY IN ITS BEING
PRODUCED FROM ITS CAUSE ; AND THE CONTINUITY IN THE CHAIN' Also (OF EVERY SUCCEEDING THING) IS DUE TO
BEING PRODUCED FROM EACH PROCEDING THING.-(688)
COMMENTARY.
Mornuntary things are adinitted to exist only as being produced from thoir coses: and what is called their sthiti', 'status', consists only in their acquiring their own selves, -and not in their taking up their form fubsequently to their having acquired their status; as by themselves all things are momentary, and hence incapable of staying at any tine subsequent to their coming into existence. Or, if the thing did 50 exist, it would never cease to exist, it should be there as before, and even subsequently, it would renain the same; or else, it would have to renounce its own nature. -In the Chain, the production of each succeeding Product is due to the immediately preceding cause. So that even here, there is nothing that could be done by the Momentum in question. (688)
Says the Opponent-"Woll then, the Momentum in quostion would oktablislı wlut is not-momentary ".
dnswer:
TEXTS (689.690).
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WHAT IS NOT-MOMENTARY DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY OTHER FORM WHAT THEN COULD THE MOMENTUM BE THE ESTABLISHER'? NOR HAS THIS MOMENTUM BEEN YOUND TO HAVE-CAUSAL CHARACTER; THE CAUSE THEN MAY CONSIST OF THIS MOMENTUM OR SOMETHING ELSE. FURTHER, THE MOMENTUM IN QUESTION HAS BEEN HELD TO BE A QUALITY THAT RE-ESTABLISHES WHAT HAS BEEN ALREADY PRODUCED, -SUONTOR EXAMPLE, AS THE Cloth.-WHAT THERE. FORE HAS BEEN CALLED A QUALITY AND MOMENTUM IS NOT
POSSIBLE.—(689-690)
COMMENTARY. It has been already pointed out that the thing that is not-momentary can never become otherwise than it is, and hence its status is there always,
