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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XVII.
From all this it follows that there is no apprehension of anything along with its properties. Hence the Reason adduced by us cannot be said to be Unproven-(1257-1260)
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It might be argued that "There may be no qualifying Properties in the shape of the Universal and the rest; the form of the word itself will be the distinguishing property."
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (1261-1263).
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THE NAME ALSO, WHICH WOULD BE THE 'SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY OF THE WORD, CAN NEVER BE DENOTATIVE; AS THE IDEA OF THE SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY BEING THE DENOTER OR THE DENOTED HAS BEEN ALREADY REJECTED. IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE IDEA OF THE DENOTER AND DENOTED HAS BEEN REGARDED AS SOMETHING SUPERIMPOSED (UPON THINGS); WHILE WHAT ONE APPREHENDS BY SENSE-PERCEPTION IS SOMETHING WHICH IS NOT SUPERIMPOSED; BECAUSE THIS PERCEPTION IS THERE ONLY WHEN THE SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY' IS THERE, AND IT IS NOT THERE WHEN THE SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY IS NOT THERE-THROUGH THE INTERVENTION OF SOMETHING ELSE OR SOME SUCH REASON.-(1261-1263)
COMMENTARY.
There can be no Convention in regard to the 'Specific Individuality'.not even to the Specific Individuality' of the Word; for the simple reason that there can be no connection with Convention at the time of usage; and apart from its' Specific Individuality', there is no other form of the Word; nor again can the Word be connected with anything with regard to which there has been no Convention; if it did, it would lead to absurdities;-nor can there be any Conceptual Content without connection with words;from all this it follows that the whole idea of the Denoter and Denoted is something superimposed '-imaginary-not real.
It might be argued that-"even so, the Perception shall become associated with Conceptual Content (Determinate) through apprehending the superimposed' thing."
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The answer is that what one apprehends, etc. etc.
When it is not there'.-i.e. through its absence,-the word 'vyatirekalaḥ' being construed here; the sense being that 'it is through the absence of the Specific Individuality (that the Perception also is absent)'.
Question:-"When is there absence of the Specific Individuality?"
