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EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS
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The effect of the emphasis is explained-a cognition not of the nature of A poha : i.e. that Import of Words, in the shape of Idea, wherein the Apona does not enter at all; the compound buddhyanapohakam' being expounded as 'the non-exclusion of the Idea' i.e. without any exclusion of other Ideas.-Or the compound buddhyanapohakan 'may be explained as follows
apohaka' is that which excludes,- anapohaka' is that which does not exclude ; --the compound thus standing for that which does not exclude the Idea'. -What is meant is as follows:- Though one Cognition is always different from another Cognition, yet when it appears, it does not tend to the exclusion of the other cognition; it always tends to the positive cognition of such entities as the Horse and the like. Consequently the most reasonable thing is to accept the view that what is denoted is a positive entity, not Apoha; because one Cognition cannot exclude (be of the nature of the Apoha, negation, of) another.-(922)
Then again, this Apoha that you have postulated as the Import of Words, -has been held to be denoted by the word as taken out of a Sentence; but what is expressed by the Sentence must be of the nature of Intuition ; as has been declared in the following-" Hitherto has been discussed the denotation of the Word as taken out of a Sentence; but what is brought about first of all is what is expressed by the Sentence, which has been called Intuition ".-In this connection we have the following Text :
TEXT (923).
“ EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF THE CORRESPONDING EXTERNAL OBJECT THERE IS Intuition EXPRESSED BY THE SENTENCE; SIMILAR MAY BE THE CASE WITH WHAT IS EXPRESSED BY THE WORD ALSO; WHY SHOULD THB Apoha BB POSTULATED
AT ALL?"[Ibid. 431-(923)
COMMENTARY.
Just as, even in the absence of an external object denoted by the Word, you describe the meaning of the Sentence to be of the nature of Intuition, not of the nature of ' Apoha'-oven so, the meaning of the word, like the meaning of the Sentence - also may be of the nature of Intuition. Under the circumstances, why is any such thing as 'Apoha postulated at all ? That is to say, the Import of both Sentence and Word may be of the positive character.-(923)
The following might be urged In the case of Intuitions also, there is always exclusion of one Intuition by another; hence 4poha is postulated.
The answer to this is as follows:
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