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EXAMINATION OF THE DEFINITION OF " SENSE-PERCEPTION". 641
something that is qualified. And yet, according to your view, this cognition is not conceptual; hence your Reason is itself Inconclusive.-(1275)
The said Sumati himself, anticipating the objection that his own Reason becomes * Inconclusive hy the case of the Universal, has answered it. This answer is shown in the following
TEXT (1276).
WA THING IS CALLED UNIVERSAL WHEN IT IS APPREHENDED WITHOUT DISTINCTION; HENCE IT IS NOT RICHT TO REGARD THE UNIVERSAL AS SOMETHING DISTINGUISHED FROM THE PARTICULAR."
-(1276)
COMMENTARY.
There is no Universal apart from the Particulars, by virtue of which on being apprehended it would be amenable to Conceptual Perception; in fact, it is only when the Particulars are apprehended without distinction that they are called "Universal'; that is to say, when they are not cognised, each in its own distinctive form, they are called 'Universal'. Consequently, how could the Univorsal be distinguished' from the Particulars, by virtue of which its apprehension would become conceptual'.-(1276)
Question :- How then can there be a clear division between the Universal and the Particular ?
Answer (provided by Sumati) :
TEXT (1277).
* WHEN THESE (PARTICULARS) ARE OOGNISED AS SIMILAR OR DISSIMILAB, THEY INDICATE TRE EXISTENCE IN THEMSELVES, OF THE CHARACTER OF THE UNIVERSAL' OR THE
PARTICULAR '."-(1277)
COMMENTARY.
“These same Particulars, according as they are cognised as similar or dissimilar, become spoken of as Universal' or 'Particular, respectively
