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LOKĀYATA-MATERIALISM.
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TEXT (1919). INASMUCH AS NO ARGUMENT HAS BEEN ADDUCED AS NEGATIVING THM
CONTRARY, THERE IS AN UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THE NEGATIVE CONCOMITANCE OF THE PROBANS WITH THE PROBANDUM); SO THAT, THERE BEING A SUSPICION REGARDING THE PRESENCE OF THE PROBANS) IN THE contrary of the Pobandum, -THE PROBANS REMAINS “INCONCLUSIVE':-(1919)
COMMENTARY. Inasmuch as, etc. etc.';this is the reason for the uncortainty regarding the Negative Concomitance [i.e. there is no certainty as to the Probans being absent whenever the Probandum is absent].
"There being a suspicion, etc. etc. '. This is the reason for Inconclusive' ness!
Vijätiyasadbhāva'-is presence in the contrary.--" Whose presence ?" of the Probans.
The compound Sharkyamāna, etc. etc.' is to be expounded as whose presence in the contrary is suspected '.
Nor could the contingency of the idea of Death-Cognition producing another Cognition) being taken to imply the absence of death be taken as serving the purpose of the argument negativing the contrary. Because in reality there is no death of anything in the shape of the Soul' and other things; what really happens is that a dissimilar Chain becomes set up, which brings about the cessation of the condition which gave the name to the particular body; and it is this that is spoken of as 'Death' in common parlance and also in scientific treatises.-(1919)
It has been argued above (under Text 1865) that "it is sheer audacity to assert that there is Consciousness in the lotus, etc. etc."
The uuswer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (1920-1922). THERE IS NO AUDACITY IN ASSERTING THAT THERE IS CONSCIOUSNESS
IN THE FETUS'; EVEN THOUGH THE SENSE-ORGANS HAVE NOT APPEARED IN IT, WHY CANNOT COGNITION BE THERE I-IN FAOT THE ASSERTION THAT DOES INVOLVE AUDACITY IS THAT ALL COGNITION PROCEEDS FROM SENSE-ORGANS AND OBJECTS '; BECAUSE THE CONTRARY IS FOUND TO BE THE CASE DURING DREAMS.-IN REALITY, COGNITION IS APPREHENDED ALSO IN A FORM WHICH IS DISTINCT FROM THAT OF THE OBJECT, AS IS FOUND IN THE CASE OF SWOON. FROM THIS IT IS CLEAR THAT CONSCIOUSNESS CAN BE THERE IN THE FETUS.-(1920-1922)
COMMENTARY. If all Cognition were apprehended only through tho Souso-organs and the Objects, then our assertion would have been an audacious one ; as a matter