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INFERENCE.
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Not being an integral part of the proving, the Proposition is of no use, and hence need not be stated.
* Of no use' may be explained as not a cause; in which case, the phrase would form part of the conclusion set forth here (which would be that the Proposition is not a cause of the proving).-(1430)
Question :-"How is the Proposition not an integral part of the Proving ?” Answer:
TEXTS (1431-1433). FOR WANT OF RELATIONSHIP, THE PROPOSITION CANNOT BE RIGHTLY
REGARDED AS PROVING THE THING directly; NOR CAN IT BE RIGHTLY REGARDED AS DOING IT indirectly, BECAUSE IT DOES NOT INDICATE WHAT IS POSSIBLE. IF IT BE REGARDED AS PART OF THE proving, ON ACCOUNT OF ITS PRESENTING THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROBANS AND THE PROBANDUM, LIKE THE STATEMENT OF THE CORROBORATIVE INSTANCE, THEN IT WOULD BE LIKE WORDS CONVEYING AN ORDER, AND IN VIEW OF THIS THE REASON GIVEN WOULD BE FALLIBLE, AND AS MERELY THE OBJECTIVE WILL BE INDICATED, THE SAID STATEMENT OF THE PROPOSITION WOULD BE USELESS ALSO.-(1431-1433)
COMMENTARY.
'It does not indicate what is probablet-because it only states what is meant to be proved.
What is meant is as follows:-As words have no connection with things the statement of the Proposition cannot serve any directly useful purpose ;nor indirectly, like the statement of the Probans, because it does not indicate what is possible as declared in the following passage They made the assertion of the Minor Term, for the purpose of intimating their intention, which shows where the doubt lay; hence it does not serve any directly useful purpose in the actual proving; and as it states only what is meant to be proved, it cannot help indirectly either'.
Some people hold the following opinion The Proposition has to be stated, in the same way as the Corroborative Instance is stated, -because, even though it does not form a part of the Inference, yet it presents the objective of the Probans and the Probandum; as declared in the words
Since the two forms that remain are shown in the Corroborative Instance'; that is, the statement of the Corroborative Instance, even though it does not form a separate factor of the Inference, is yet stated for the purpose of show. ing the two features of the Probans-other than the feature of subsisting in the Minor Term".
The answer to these people is provided in the words Like the Corroborative Instance, etc. etc. - Words conveying an order, such as 'Do this, Prove the Sound to be non-eternal-The term 'adi' includes words conveying a request and so forth. [Under the opinion put forward) it would be necessary
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