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EXAMINATION OF THE DEFINITION OF "SENSE-PERCEPTION”.631
TEXTS (1250-1253).
IN THE STATE OF THINGS ATTENDING UPON THE WATCHING OF THE DANCING
GIRL, THE WHOLE LOT SENSATIONS IS APPREHENDED AT ONE AND TER SAME TIME, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE MANY INTERVENING FACTORS. IF THIS ALSO WERE REGARDED AS A MISTAKE DUE TO THE QUICK SUCCESSION IN WHICH THE SENSATIONS APPBAR, -TAEN (THE ANSWER IS THAT) THERE IS STILL QUICKER SUCCESSION IN THE CASE OF COGNITIONS PRODUCED BY THE TWO WORDS "lala' AND 'tala' WHEN PRONOUNCED TOGETHER; WHY THEN IS THERE NO IDEA OF SIMULTANEITY IN THIS CASE-THEX IN A CASE WHERE THE OPERATIONS OF THE MIND ALONE ARE CONCERNED, NO SUCCESSION SHOULD BE PERCEIVED, BECAUSE ALL COGNITIONS (MENTAL OPERATIONS) OCOUR IN QUICK SUOCESSION AND DO NOT STAY FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME. SO THAT IN ALL THESE CASES (OF QUICK SUOCESSION), NO SUCCESSION COULD BE PERCEIVED. THE NOTION OF SIMULTANEOUS COGNITION HOWEVER WOULD BE THERE, JUST AS IN THE CASE OF PERCEPTION OF SOUND, ETC. (IN THE CASE OF THE DANCING GIRL). (1250-1253)
COMMENTARY.
Under such conditions as the witnessing of the dancing girl, we find that each single sensation, even though intervened by five other sensations, appeara to be close to, and inseparated from, the other; for instance, at the same time that one sees the girl dancing, he also hears the song and its accompani. ments, goes on tasting the camphor and other spices, smells the sweet fragrance of flowers placed before the nostrils, touches the air proceeding from the fans and things of making presents of clothes and ornaments. (All this goes on simultaneously.) Thus even when there are so many intervening factors, among the several cognitions, there appears the illusion that all these appear at one and the same time, this illusion being due to the quick succession in which the cognitions appear ;-such being the case even when there are several intervening factors, it becomes all the more possible that there should be the notion of the letters being pronounced at one and the same time, in cases where two words like 'latā' and 'tala':-or sarah' and 'rasah' are pronounced, where the utterance of the syllables is so much quicker; that in the case of such utteranoes as "sarah-rasah', when the words are heard, there should be no recognition of the two different words or the two different things denoted by them.--Further, in a case where there is Conceptual Content in the form of pondering over several philosophical and literary problems,---which ponderings are not interrupted by heterogeneous sensations through the Eye, etc., the appearance of the ideas is extremely quick; and hence it would not be possible to form any idea of succession in them, And as all Cognitions are momentary, and cannot continue for any length of time they always appear quickly; so that the cognition of nothing could be successive at all ;-'just as in the case of the perception of sound, etc.';i.e. just as in the
