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EXAMINATION OF THE DEFINITION OF " SENSE-PERCEPTION". 639
from itself, then it is inadınjssible', because for the Buddhist, there is no such thing as the qualification through connection with which the cognition would apprehend things along with qualifications ; according to the Buddhist, what is apprehended is only the Thing itself as differentiated from homogeneous and heterogeneous things; and it is by reason of this latter apprehension that the Cognition is said to apprehend the qualified thing:-(1271)
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Question -" Then are all such expressions as qualified', distinguished ', qualified character', and so forth purely negative ?"
Answer -
TEXT (1272).
WHAT IS MEANT BY BEING QUALIFIED ' (DISTINGUISHED) IS DIFFERENCE -NOT THE connection of qualifications. BUT THE IDEA ALSO THAT THIS IS different 'IS NOT COGNISED AS ASSOOLATED
WITH WORDS.-(1272)
COMMENTARY. Difference-i.e. Differentiation (Preclusion) from homogeneous and heterogeneous things and this is not anything different from the thing differentiated; it is the thing itself which is spoken of in that form, through the exclusion of other things, when this exclusion is meant to be emphasised.
The following might be urged—"If there is always the apprehension of the Thing as distinguished from homogeneous and heterogeneous things, then the Apprehension becomes determinate (Conceptual); because it appears in the Verbal form *This is different. Otherwise how could it apprehend the difference', if it appeared in any other form? When a certain apprehension appears in one form, it cannot be said to apprehend another: if it did so, it would lead to an absurdity,"
The answer to this is— But the idea also, etc. etc,'-(1272)
Question :-"How is it then that it is said to be different '7" Answers
TEXT (1273).
IT IS ONLY AFTER THE THING HAS BEEN APPREHENDED AS THE NEGATION OF ALL THINGS OTHER THAN ITSELF, THAT THERE APPEARS THE CONCEPTUAL COGNITION IN THE SAID FORM.
-(1273)
COMMENTARY
Svabhāvāt other than its own self.-When the Thing has been appre. hended as the negation of—as differentiated from all other things, and when the (non-conceptual) perception in the specific iorm of the Blue has
