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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XVI.
of this similarity, tle word may be applied to the external object, even though it may not be directly expressed ; as happens in the case of twins"
This is answered in the following
TEXT (908). HOW CAN THE WORD BE APPLIED, -MERELY THROUGH SIMILARITY,-TO WHAT IS NOT EXPRESSED BY IT? AND THE VIEW THAT IT IS THROUGH SIMILARITY, AS IN THE CASE OF THE NAMES OF TWINS, IS ALSO DISCARDED BY THIS SAME
ARGUMENT.-(908)
COMMENTARY.
Such being the case, the application of words to external objects can never be possible; in fact it might be possible to apply the word to an object not figuring in the desire to speak at all; as in the case of twins.
The Vaibhāşikar postulates, as mark of the object called 'Name' and Basis', a distinct faculty.-This theory also becomes discarded by this same argument. Because if the said 'Name' is momentary, then there can be no co-ordination; if it is not-momentary, then there can be no succession : and there is the anomaly of the word being applied to an external object; and it could not always be on the basis of similarity.--All these objections descend upon this theory in a body.
Or the phrase 'by this same argument' may be taken to refer to the objections urged against Specific Individuality and the rest. That is to say, in the present connection also, it may be said that the nature of the Name, etc., which contains nothing else, is such that there can be no Convention in regard to them; similarly what does not exist cannot be denoted by words '-(908)
It has been asserted above by the Author that if words denote things that figure in the desire to speak', then they cannot apply to external objects. The following Text anticipates the Opponent's answer to this
TEXT (909),
" WHEN TWO PERSONS THINK OF THE FORM FIGURING IN THE DESIRE TO SPEAK ' AND IN THE INFERENCE'AS SOMETHING EXTERNAL, THEN THE WORD BECOMES APPLIED TO IT" IF THIS VIEW BE HELD, THEN THAT AGAIN IS EXACTLY
OUR OPINION.-(909)
COMMENTARY.
"The 'Desire to speak' is present in the Chain of the Speaker, and the "Inference based upon that Desire is present in the chain of the Hearer;
