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EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
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of its own meaning':-As a matter of fact however, what is held to be negatived is only that which is open to doubt by the dull-witted person ; how then can there be any exclusion of its own meaning'?
The same reasoning applies to the case of such words as * adi and the like.-(1188)
It has been asked (under Text 986)—"Is it positive or negative " The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (1189).
IT IS NEITHER Positive NOR Negative ; IT IS NEITHER diverse Nor same; IT IS NEITHER subsistent, NOB non-subsistent ; IT IS NEITHER
one NOR many—(1189)
COMMENTARY
Question :- "Why is it not positive ?" Answer
TEXT (1190).
IN RDALITY, IT DOES NOT EXIST IN THE FORM IN WHICH IT IS APPREHENDED; HENCE IT CANNOT BE POSITIVE. NOR IS IT NEGATIVE, AS IT
IS APPREHENDED AS AN ENTITY.-(1190)
COMMENTARY.
By deluded people it is apprehended as something external, and yet it does not exist in that form; and as having no external form, it is not Positive.
Question :-"Why cannot it be negatius?"
Answer Nor is it negative, because it is apprehended as an entity'; and yet, as it presents itself as something external, it cannot be said to be entirely negative.(1190)
Why cannot Apoha be of the nature of diversity' or of
Question: *58 menesa"
Answers
TEXT (1191).
DIVERSITY' (DIFFERENCE) AND 'SAMENESS' (NON-DIFFERENCE), ETC. ARE RESIDENT IN entities; WHILE THE 'DENOTATION OF WORDS' IS ENTIRELY FEATURELESS; HENCE THE SAID
CHARACTERS HAVE NO PLACE HERE.-(1191)
COMMENTARY. Diversity and sameness, etc. -i.e. Difference and Non-difference, etc. the etc. including 'being subsistent' and 'non-subsistent' and so forth.
