Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

Author(s): Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XIX.
What has been stated is on the basis of taking it for granted that what the opponent has asserted is true. As a matter of fact, the Word is not a property of any such Subject as the Tree; as it is always found in the place where the Speaker is.-(1493)
It has been shown that in the case of Verbal Cognition), there can be no subsistence in the Subject (i.e. the Minor Premiss); the following Text shows that there is no possibility of concomitance (between the Probans and the Probandum, as expressed in the Major Premiss) :
TEXT (1494).
“NOR CAN THE CONCOMITANCE OF THE WORD WITH THE object Inferred (PROBANDUM) BE ASCERTAINED; THE CONCOMITANCE OF ALL THINGS IS RECOGNISED ONLY BY THEIR TUNOTION
ING."-(1494)
COMMENTARY.
Ascertained'-recognised with certainty. * By their functioning':-i.e. by existence, by being present.
What is moant is that it is only what exists that can be concomitant, not what does not exist.-(1494)
The same idea is further elucidated :
TEXT (1495).
“IT IS ONLY WHEN THE FIRE exists WHENEVER THERE IS SMOKE THAT ITS CONCOMITANCE IS CLEARLY PERCEIVED. IN THE CASE IN QUESTION HOWEVER, THERE IS NO SUCH CERTAIN IDEA AS THAT THE THING SPOKEN OY exists WHER
EVER THE Word EXISTS'."-(1495)
COMMENTARY.
"It is because of the well-recognised fact that wherever there is smoke there must be Fire' that Fire is said to be concomitant with smoke ; there is however no such concomitance between the Word and the Thing (spoken of)."-(1495)
Question - Why is there no such concomitance ? Answer