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HXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
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Even granting that these (Gender, Number, Action, etc.) belong to things, -inasmuch as the Apoha in the form of the Reflected Image' is apprehended by deluded persons as something external, through this apprehension, connection with Gender, Number and the rest would be there through the Individual-Henco what has been asserted (by Kumärila, under 973) to the effect that the Individual being something that cannot bo spoken of by words, the connection cannot be through that either", -is Incon. clusive
It is also unproven ', unadmitted'under the theory that all this is purely illusory*; this latter fact is shown in the following
TEXT (1143).
IN FACT, THE Apoha Is DENOTED AS APPREHENDED IN THE FORM OF THE INDIVIDUAL; AND THE APOHA THEREFORE IS CONNECTED WITH
GENDER, ETO, THROUGH THAT INDIVIDUAL (1143)
COMMENTARY.
• Apoha is denoted by the Word.
Tat-Therefore. * Asya -of the Apoha.-(1143)
It has been argued (under 974, by Kumarita) that" in the case of Verbs, the exclusion of other things is not apprehended".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (1141).
TYE WORD IS USED ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BRINCING ABOUT THE COGNITION OF THE THING INTENDED; HENCH THE EXCLUSION OF WHAT IS NOT-INTENDED BECOMES APPREHENDED
BY IMPLICATION.-(1144)
COMMENTARY.
That "in the case of Verbs the exclusion of other things is not apprehended " cannot be admitted. Because when a person uses a word, it is not because he is addicted to such use, but for the purpose of bringing about the cognition,- in the person hearing the word-in regard to a cortain thing that is intended, desired, to be known. Consequently, when the desired thing is apprehended, the exclusion of the undesired thing also becomes apprehended by implication; as the desired and the undesired' are mutually exclusive.-(1144)
It might be argued that "all things are desired":—The answer to that is as follows:
