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If the Cognition is uncognised, what other cognition could there be of the apprehension of the object ? None whatsoever.-(2022)
It might be held that there would be apprehension of it by another Cognition.
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (2023-2024). IF THE APPREHENSION OF THE OBJECT WERE APPREHENDED BY ANOTHER
COGNITION, THEN IT WOULD MEAN THAT AT THE TIME THAT THE OBJECT IS APPREHENDED, IT IS NOT COGNISED BECAUSE ITS COGNITION HAS NOT YET COME ABOUT: AND IF THAT IS SO, THEN WHEN AGAIN WOULD IT BECOME COGNISED ?- IF IT BE HELD THAT-"IT WOULD BECOME COGNISED WHEN ITS COGNITION BECOMES COGNISED ",
THEN IT WOULD MEAN THAT THE OBJECT WHICH IS NOT COGNISED AT THE TIME OF ITS OWN APPREHENSION, BECOMES COGNISED ON THE APPREHENSION OF SOMETHING ELSE.THIS INDEED WOULD BE AN EXTREMELY WISE ASSERTION !-(2023 2024)
COMMENTARY. Siddhyasamsiddhëh'-on account of its cognition not having come about. -It cannot be right that the thing whose appearance has not become cognised should be regarded as apparent. That is to say, even at the time that the Object is approhended, there is no cognition of it; because the apprehension consisting of the manifestation of the Object has not yot been cognised ; undor the circumstancos, it bohoves you to explain at what time it would becoino cognised.
If it be held that it would become cognised, etc. etc.;-.e. it would become cognised at the time of the appearance of the Cognition of its cogni. tion,-this indeed would be a very clever assertion ! How can a thing which is not cognised at the time of its own apprehension become cognised at the time of the cognition of something else -(2023-2024)
It might be granted that it does become cognised-only if there were no infinite regress; as it is however, the idea involves an unavoidable infinite regress. This is what is shown in the following
TEXT (2025). IF THE SAID COGNITION OF THE APPREHENSION IS NOT COGNISED, THEN THE PRECEDING ONE REMAINS UNCOGNISED. IF OF THAT ALSO, YET ANOTHER COGNITION WERE POSTULATED, THEN THERE WOULD BE AN INFINITE REGRESS.-(2025)
COMMENTARY. Tasya'-stands for the second cognition of the apprehension of the Object.