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TEXT (1972) "JUST AS IN THE CASE OF THE COMING INTO EXISTENCE OF SIMILAR * MOMENTS', THERE IS AN ILLUSION OF permanence, -SO WHEN THERE IS AN UNBROKEN SERIES OF COGNITIONS OF SIMILAR ATOMS, THERE IS AN ILLUSION
Op Grossness."-(1972)
COMMENTARY He has offered the following answer :-" In the case of sound and other things what are perceived are several similar. Moments coming into existence one after the other; and yet there is an illusion of there being a permanent entity in the same manner, in the case of Atoms, what are perceived simultaneously are so many homogeneous Atoms present in an unbroken chnin, which gives rise to the mental delusion that what is perceived is a gross object-- Thus the Reason adduced above in Text 1968 is 'inadmissible."_(1972)
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (1973-1979) IF THE PERCEPTION, ENTIRELY BY ITS OWN FUNCTION, DID NOT BRING
ABOUT THE RECOGNITION (OF THE IMPARTITE ATOMS), THEN, HOW COULD THESE BE REGARDED AS AMENABLE TO PERCEPTION'?THAT THINGS ARE MOMENTARY IS ASCERTAINED BY MEANS OF PROOFS; BUT HOW ARE THE ATOMS COGNISED AS 'WHITE', 'YELLOW AND THE REST ?-IT MIGHT BE SAID THAT—"THE FIRST VISIBLE THING MUST BE AN AGGREGATE OF MINUTE (INVISIBLE THINGS, BECAUSE IT IS gross,-LIKE THE HILL AND SUCH THINGS THERE IS THIS INFERENCE (WHICH PROVES OUR ASSERTION)".-THE ANSWER TO THIS IS THAT grossne88 IS NOT ADMITTED TO BE PRESENT IN THE TWO THINGS; THE COMPOSITE IS NOT GROSS, NOR ARE THE ATOMS SO-IP WHAT HAS BEEN SPOKEN OP AS SUCH (GROSS) IS THE WELLKNOWN FORM THAT IS FOUND EXTENDED IN SPACE-EVEN SO, AS SUCH FORM APPEARS IN ILLUSORY COGNITION ALSO, THERE WOULD ALWAYS BE DOUBT. IF THE ANSWER BE THAT "ILLUSORY COGNITION IS WRONG, HENCE WHAT IS COGNISED IS NOT ADMITTED TO BE so"-THEN THE ANSWER IS THAT, UNLESS A DISTINCTION IS ESTABLISHED, WHAT WOULD BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS AND THAT I-IP IT IS compatibility with effective action,--AND THIS IS SAID TO CONSIST IN COMPATIBILITY WITH THE COGNITION ENVISAGING THAT EFFECTIVE ACTION, THEN SUCH COMPATIBILITY IS POSSIBLE OTHERWISE ALSO: ON ACOOUNT OF THE CAPACITY FOR ACTION BEING RESTRICTED.-(1973-1979)
COMMENTARY. What is meant by the emphasizing particle eva', 'entirely, is the fact of there being no dependence upon the Inferential Indicative or the