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TEXT (1046). THE SAID 'EXCLUSIONS OF THINGS, CREATED BY MERE ASSUMPTION,
CANNOT REALLY DIFFER, THROUGH DIFFERENCE IN THE 'EXCLUDED THINGS, OR THROUGH THAT IN THE
SUBSTRATUM.-(1046)
COMMENTARY. If the diversity in the Apola were held (by us to be real and based upon the diversity of 'excluded things', or upon the diversity of the 'substratum,
- then the objection urged would have been applicable. As a matter of fact, however, the Exclusions are not real, but assumed on the basis of the diversity among like and unlike things.-(1046)
The following Text shows that the said ecclusions appear as distinct things, only on account of the said assumption, not in reality :
TEXT (1047). The externality THAT IS ATTRIBUTED TO THESE EXCLUSIONS IS ONLY ASSUMED IMAGINARY), NOT REAL. IN REALITY, DIFFERENCE AND NON-DIFFERENCE SUBSIST ONLY IN REAL
THINGS.-(1047)
COMMENTARY. Question "Why is it not real ?" Answer In reality, etc. etc. ':-(1047)
The following Texts proceed to show that in reality it is the assumptions (Assumed conceptions) only that differ among themselves :
TEXTS (1048-1049). WHAT DIFFER AMONG THEMSELVES ARE THE CONCEPTUAL CONTENTS
APPREHENDING THE SAID EXCLUSIONS--AND THOSE DIFFERENCES ARE DUE TO THE INFLUENCE OF THEIR ROOT, THE THING AS DIFFERENTIATED FROM SEVERAL THINGS, AND CON. VENTION. THINGS, CONSISTING OF SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITIES DO NOT BEOOME EITHER UNIFIED OR DIVERSIFIED IN PARTS ; IT IS ONLY THE CONCEPTUAL CONTENT
THAT VARIES.-(1048-1049)
COMMENTARY Their Root', --in the shape of Wind and other Humours, and the Tendency to conceptual thought the thing as differentiated from several things, and the Convention ;-it is due to the influence'-force-of these that the conceptual Contents, apprehending the thing as excluded from several
