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EXAMINATION OF THE DEFINITION OF " SENSE-PERCEPTION".
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TEXTS (1257-1260).
OR AGAIN, WHEN THERE IS NO BASIS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A THING IN A
CERTAIN FORM, THAT THING IN THAT FORM IS NOT ADMITTED AS REAL, BY THE WISE. FOR INSTANCE, THE WHITE HORSE IS NOT ADMITTED TO BE THE COW BECAUSE THE DEWLAP AND THE OTHER FEATURES OF THE Cow ARE NOT PRESENT IN THE HORSE. IN THE CASE OF SENSE-PERCEPTION THERE IS NO REASON FOR THE PRESENCE OF THE determinate character (THE CHARACTER OF BEING ASSOCLATED WITH CONCEPTUAL CONTENT), WHICH COULD BRING ABOUT THE APPREHENSION OF THE THING ALONG WITH ITS PROPERTIES, -SPOTTED AND OTHER COWS ARE INSTANCES TO THE CONTRARY. IF IT WERE NOT SO, IT WOULD LEAD TO ABSURD CONTINGENCIES.THE REASON ADDUCED CANNOT BE SAID TO BE UNPROVEN' (OR NOT-ADMITTED); AS THE UNIVERSAL AND OTHER QUALIFYING FACTORS HAVE ALL BHEN REJECTED. NOR ARE THE PROPERTIES COGNISED AS APART FROM THOSE FACTORS. NOR ARE THERE ANY SUOH PROPERTIES.-(1257-1260)
COMMENTARY.
The argument may be thus formulated :-When the basis of the idea of a thing in a certain form is absent, that thing is not accepted by intelligent persons to be of that form for instance, the White Horse is not accepted as of the form of the Cow, because the basis of the cow-idea, in the shape of the dewlap and other characteristics of the Cow, is absent in the Horse ; in the case of Sense-perception, which is produced on the basis of the specific object Blue, the basis for its being regarded as Associated with Conceptual Content (i.e. Determinate), in the form of the apprehension of the object along with its proporties, is absent, and thus there being no apprehension of the Cause (the effect, in the shape of its being associated with Conceptual Content cannot be there). The Spotted and Black Cows supply the Corroborative Instance per contra. Lastly, there is the possibility of the incongruity that all things might become accepted to be of all forms and that the person accepting things would come to be regarded as stupid. Such is the upshot of the Inference put forward.
Karka' is white Horse. Universal, etc. Si.e. the qualifying factors (postulated by the Realists).
Even if the Universal and the rest are real entities, our Reason is not Unproven ' ;-this is what is meant by the words-Nor is the thing, etc.': i.e. as apart from Colour and the rest which have been held to be qualified by the Properties (Universal, etc.).
Question : "If there is no cognition of Properties as distinct from what is qualified, then, why should it not be a qualifying factor 7"
Answer:- Nor are there any such Properties -ie, as differentiated from the thing.
