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EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
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The reason for this view is next stated-Inasmuch as, elc. etc.; all cows, variegated and the rest, are apprehended as Cow', 'Cow, as of common form; and it is on this account that this is called 'Commonalty or Universal '-(1022)
As regards its externality, that also is spoken oi as such only by persons tinder illusion; it is not real.-This is what is shown in the following
TEXT (1023).
BECAUSE IT IS COGNISED AS A POSITIVE ENTITY, THEREFORE IT IS CALLED A 'POSITIVE ENTITY; THIS MISTAKEN COGNITION IS
PRODUCED QUICKLY FROM ITS SHED.-(1023)
COMMENTARY.
Objection : "If in any case, there were a positive entity in the shape of the Commonalty based upon an external object actually apprehended, then it might be possible to have an illusion of the Cormonalty based upon similarity; when however, there is no real primary Commonalty' (according to the Buddhist), the said illusion of commonalty is not possible for you."
Answer: This mistaken cognition, etc. etc. _ Quality' -.e. the cognition in question appears, independently of the perception of any real Commonalty,—through some internal aberration, like the conception of *two moons'; all illusions do not really proceed from the perception of similarity; they appear through mental aberration also. Hence there is no incongruity in our view.-(1023)
The following Text proceeds to show that our view is not open to the charge of 'futility -of having a Probandum that is already proved :
TEXT (1024). THAT SAME FORM OF THE COGNITION' CALLED THE ' Apoha', IS THE DENOTATION OF THE WORD, ALSO (REGARDED AS) A POSITIVE ENTITY', IN THE FORM OF THE COMMONALTY'; ON ACCOUNT OF ITS BEING APPREHENDED AS SUCH,
THROUGH MISTAKE (1024)
COMMENTARY.
The form of the Cognition described above, as imposed upon it as something external, is called Apoha', which is the denotation of the word '; and it is spoken of as an external thing, in the shape of the Commonalty (or Universal).
The reason for this is stated— On account, etc. etc.;-.e. because it is apprehended in the form of the Commonalty, and in the form of a positive entity.
