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CHAPTER XVIII.
Inference.
COMMENTARY The Author proceeds to state the definition of Inference -
TEXTS (1362-1363). INFERENCE IS HELD TO BE OF TWO KINDS, AS DIVIDED INTO-(1) For one's own benefit, AND (2) for the benefit of others. (1) INFRRENCE
FOR ONE'S OWN BENEFIT' CONSISTS IN THE COGNITION OF THE INFERRED OBJECT DERIVED FROM THE THREE-FEATURED PROBANS; AND (2) INFERENCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS' CONSISTS IN THE STATEMENT OF THE THREE-FEATURED PROBANS. THAT PROBANS WHICH HAS ONLY one or two FHATURES (OUT OF THE NECESSARY THREE) IS REGARDED AS A SEMBLANCE OF THE PROBANS'.
(1362-1363)
COMMENTARY.
Inference is of two kinds-as divided into "for one's own benefit' and for the benefit of others ':-The former should be understood to be that Oognition of the inferred object which is derived from the three-featured Probans', -the Indicative that fulfils the three conditions of (1) being present in the Subject, (2) being present in that wherein the Probandum is known to be present', and (3) being entirely absent where the Probandum is known to be absent' -The Inference for the sake of others should be understood to consist in the verbal expression of the said three-featured Probans.
Question :-"Why has not the definition of the Wrong Inference been provided ?"
Answer - That Probans which, etc. etc. Sound is eternal, (a) because it is a product, and (6) because it is corporeal, and (c) because it is noncognisable', in this Inference only one of the three features' is present in each ; e.g. in (a) the character of being a Product fulfils the single condition, of being present in the subject (Sound) (while it does not fulfil the condition of being present where the Probandum is lenown to be present, as the Probandum, Eternality, is known to be present in Äkäsha, Soul, etc., which are not Products: nor does it fulfil the condition of being absent where the Probandum
