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INFERENCE.
687
It might be said that-"in order to guard against the said objection, recourse may be had to the qualification that the Probans should be actually present in the object ".-In that case, under your view also, the Probans comes to have the same three-featured character that it had under ours.(1382-1383)
Question : -"How so?” Answer:
TEXT (1384).
BEING OTHERWISE IMPOSSIBLE' INCLUDES POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONCOMITANCE ; AND BY ITS presence in the object ITS PRESENCE
IN THE MINOR TERM BECOMES ADMITTED.-(1384)
COMMENTARY.
Positive Concomitance is presence wherever the Probandum is known to be present.
* Negative Concomitance -is absence where the Probandum is Inown to be absent.
Samshraya '-is admission, i.e. acceptance.-(1384)
The following Tears shows that there is no incompatibility with the opinion of our Great Teacher:
TEXT (1385).
A SIMILAR ABBREVIATED DEFINITION HAS BEEN IN DIOATED BY OUR TEACHER ALSO : WHO SAYS THAT THE PROBANS EXISTS IN THE COGNISABLE OBJECT AND IS PERVADED BY A PART
OF IT':-(1385)
COMMENTARY.
Grünyadharmah', - i.e. existing in the cognisable object,-i.e. the object in which the Probandum is sought to be proved ; i.e. in the Minor Term. (1385)
The following Texts point out the objections against the second alterna. tive noted above (under Text 1380) :
