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LOKÄYATA-MATERIALISM.
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TEXTS (1887-1888).
[THE MATERIALIST MIGHT SAY]—"LET THE DOCTRINE BE UPSET ; WE
ACCEPT THE VIEW THAT ALL THINGS ARE DECIDEDLY MOMENTARY, BECAUSE IT IS A REASONABLE VIEW SUPPORTED BY ALL KINDS OF REASON", --IF YOUR LOVE FOR REASON IS SO GREAT THAT YOU HAVE NO REGARD FOR YOUR OWN DOCTRINE, THEN YOU SHOULD ACCEPT ALSO THE MORE BEASONABLE VIEW THAT PRIMARY ELEMENTAL SUB. STANCES DO NOT EXIST AT
ALL':-(1887-1888)
COMMENTARY.
If you accept the momentary character of things, because it is in accordance with Reason, then you should accept the doctrine that 'Ideas alone exist', which is still more reasonable ; because reasonableness, which is your criterion for acceptance, is present in this case also.-(1887-1888)
Question :-"How so?” Answer :
TEXT (1889).
THE PRIMARY ELEMENTAL SUBSTANCES CANNOT EXIST IN THE FORM OF composite wholes, NOR IN THE FORM OF Atoms ; BECAUSE THERE CAN BE NO CONJUNCTION OF ATOMS.-AS IS GOING
TO BE EXPLAINED.-(1889)
OOMMENTARY.
Tēsām' of the Primary Elemental Substances.
Going to be explained ',-under the next chapter on the Examination of the 'External World':-(1889)
Question :"If the said elements do not exist, then how is it that they figure in Cognitions ? "
Answer -