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EXTERNAL WORLD,
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TEXT (2052).
"THE FACT OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE BLUE AND OTHER FORMS BEING PRODUCED BY SOMETHING OF THE SAME KIND IS SOUGHT TO BE
PROVED BY ITS BEING THE FORM OF THE COGNITION WHICH IS IN CONFORMITY WITH THE REALITY,
LIKE THE CONSCIOUSNESS."-(2052)
COMMENTARY.
Samvaditrēna , -The Instrumental ending indicates the characteristic feature of the Cognition ; the sense being—that form of the cognition which is in conformity with reality-by that is proved the fact of the form of the Cognition being produced by some other thing of the same kind ;-like Consciousness ; i.e. like the form of the Apprehender.-(2052)
The following texts point out the defects in this argument:
TEXTS (2053-2054). (a) IF BY BEING IN CONFORMITY WITH REALITY' IT IS MEANT, THAT IT PRESENTS THE EXTERNAL OBJECT, OR THAT IT HAS THE CAPACITY FOR PRESENTING IT, THEN THIS CANNOT BE 'ADMISSIBLE BY THE MAN WHO DENIES THE EXTERNAL OBJECT. (b) IF, ON THE OTHER HAND, BEING IN CONFORMITY WITH REALITY' CONSISTS IN BEING THE CAUSE OF A COGNITION ENVISAGING EFFECTIVE ACTION, -THEN, THIS IS POSSIBLE ALSO WHEN THE COGNITION IS WITHOUT AN EXTERNAL OBJECTIVE BASIS.
(2053-2054)
COMMENTARY.
(a) If being in conformity with reality' as the qualification of your Probans, means, either that it represents the external object, or that it has the capacity of representing it, then, for the person who denies the external object--i.e. for one who holds that Idea or Cognition is all that exists, such conformity can never be 'admissible'; hence the Probans is one tainted with 'inadmissibility' by one of the two parties.
(6) If 'conformity' means that it brings about a Cognition which envisages the desired effective action,-then, -80 long as a proof setting aside the contrary conclusion has not been adduced, there would always be a suspicion of the Probans being present where the Probandum is absent ; and this would make the Probans "Inconclusive'. Because such confor. mity would not be incompatible with the view that Cognition has no objective basis.-(2053-2054)