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EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
611
The Author shows that the two Reasons adduced are not 'Inconelusive'
TEXT (1207).
THAT THERE CAN BE NO CONVENTION IN REGARD TO SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY AND THE REST HAS BEEN ALREADY PROVED BEFORE. HENCE THE REASONS ADDUCED ARE NEITHER
DOUBTFUL' NOR CONCOMITANT WITH THE CONTRARY OF THE PROBANDUM', -(1207)
COMMENTARY.
It has been already proved before-on the ground of the 'Impossibility of Conventions' (under Text 876 et seq.) and on that of its 'not bearing upon anything else', -that Convention is impossible and also useless.
"Tat'-Hence, therefore.
The two Reasons are not Doubtful or Concomitant with the Contrary of the Probandum.-- (1207)
In the following l'exts, the Opponent argues that the first of the two Reusons adduced is 'Inconclusive'
TEXTS (1208-1209). " UNDER THE THEORY OF A poha also, HOW IS CONVENTION POSSIBLE ? HOW TOO IS IT FRUITFUL ?-WEEN IT CANNOT BE KNOWN TO BOTH, THE SPEAKER AND THE LISTENER ; AS THE IDEA OF ONE CANNOT BE KNOWN TO THE OTHER, WHAT TOO WAS SEEN AT THE TIME OF THE MAKING OF THE CONVENTION IS NOT SEEN AT THE TIME OF THE USE OF
THE WORD."-(1208-1209)
COMMENTARY. "Just es, in the case of Specific Individuality and the rest, there is impossibility of Convention and Futility, so it would be also in the case of Apoha; so that, inasmuch as there would be no Convention made, the denotation by words of the Apoha alone cannot be right; hence the Reason adduced is Inconclusive.
"How too is it fruitfull-That is, how is fruitfulness possible- Tasya - stands for the Convention.
Question :- Why is Convention not possible in this case ?
Answer Because it cannot be known to both.—The term 'hi' denotes reason; the meaning being-Because the Apoha in the shape of Reflection cannot be one and the same, as the object of Convention, for both, the Speaker and the Listener.
Why?
* Because the Idea of one, etc. etc. people of limited vision are cognisant of only their own ideas; no one with limited vision can be cognisant of the
