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LOKĀYATA-MATERIALISM.
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nnd Ohject.-- which could save the Probans from boing 'inndmissible' in rogard to a part of the 'Subject' (Ainor Term)?"
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (1932-1933). EVEN ON THE PRESENCE OF THE SENSE-ORGAN AND THE OBJECT, THE CONORPTUAL COGNITION THAT APPEARS IN RELATION TO THE PAST, NIC. SHOULD BE REGARDED AS ON THE SAME FOOTING AS THE CONCEPTION THAT ENVISAGES A NON-ENTITY. IT HAS BEEN ALREADY EXPLAINED IN DETAIL THAT THE FORM OF AN ENTITY CANNOT FIGURE IN CONCEPTUAL Coc. NITIONS, BECAUSE THEY INVOLVED VERBAL
EXPRESSIONS (1932-1933)
COMMENTARY. Tayok'-of the Sense-organ and the Object.
Asadarthoparāgēna -is that which envisages what does not exist', -i.e. the conception of things like the Sky-lotus. On the same footing as this would be the conception relating to the Past (if Cognitions were depenclent upon the actual presence of the Object cognised).
"How so?"
All Conceptual Cognitions appear as associated with verbal expressions, and hence they envisage verbal expressions also ; and that which envisages the verbal expression cannot envisage nn entity ; because verbal expressions do not bear upon the form of things ; nx words are not fixed by Convention in relntion to the actual form of things.-All this has been explained in detail under the Chapter on Word and its Denotation' (Chapter XVI).
The Renson is present in everything where the Probandum is known to be present; hence it cannot be regarded as Contradictory ':Nor is it "Inconclusive'; because if the Cognition were not produced from its own cause, it would have to be regarded as without cause.-(1932-1933)
It might be argued that" as the Cognition would subsist in the Body, it could not be regarded as soithout cause".
The answer to that is as follows:
TEXT (1934). IN THE STATES OF PARALYSIS, ETC.,-EVEN THOUGH THERE IS CHANGE IN THE BODY, THERE IS NO CHANGE IN THE SUBJECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS; HENCE THIS LATTER CANNOT BE RE
GARDED AS SUBSISTING IN THE BODY.(1934)
COMMENTARY. When the body is struck with diseases liko Paralysis, there is modification in it; but thnt does not make any change in the subjective Consciousness :