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EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
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If the Reason adduced by you is the real non-denotability of Individuals', then we also do not admit of any real "exclusion of Individuals ; so that in that case your argument proves only what is already admitted by us, and is, as such, superfluous, futile. This is what is shown by the sentence- In reality, etc. etc.':-(1078-1079)
The following Text reasserts the fact of the Opponent's Reason being *not-admitted':
TEXT (1080). THUS, INDIVIDUALS BEING DENOTED BY WORDS, THEY ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF BEING EXCLUDED AS REGARDS THE UNIVERSAL, THERE CAN BE NO EXCLUSION. EVEN IF THERE WERE EXCLUSION OF IT, IT COULD NOT HAVE THE CHARACTER OF THE
* ENTITY':-(1080)
COMMENTARY It has been asserted (under 965) that—" in that case what would be excluded would be the Universal; and ag subject to Exclusion, this Universal would be an entity"; and the author now shows that the Reason-Because Individualities cannot be excluded' is 'not admitted' and it is also Inconclusive by the words As regards the Universal, etc. etc.'—there can be no exclusion of it; because it has been shown that there can be exclusion of Individuals only.
Even if there were, etc. that is to say, it the said Reason is put forward in support of the conclusion contrary to the Opponent's, there would be nothing to set aside such a conclusion.-(1080)
It has been argued (under Text 956, by Kumārila) that-"Nogation cannot be subject to exclusion, etc. etc".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (1081) NEGATION IS NOT EXCLUDED' (DENIED) IN THE WORDS NEGATION IS NOT NEGATION; IT IS HOWEVER CLEARLY EXCLUDED (DENIED) IN SUCK EXPRESSIONS AS THE ENTITY IS NOT
OF THE NATURE OF NEGATION' -(1081)
COMMENTARY. Negation is not 'excluded in the words 'Negation is not Negation', -by virtue of which it would abandon its negative character (as urged by Kumärila). But, what is an Entity has the positive character, and as such remains distinct from the Negative; hence by implication, the Negation becomes subject to Exclusion'; this is what is meant by us.-(1081)
This same idea is further clarified in the following
