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* EXTERNAL WORLD.'
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Nor is it Inconclusive'; for, if it were, then there would be incongruities.(2055-2056)
With the following Text, the Author sets forth the arguments propounded by Uddyotakara [Nyayavārtika on Sū. 4. 2. 341:
TEXT (2057). "THAT WHICH APPEARS IN VARIOUS PLACES MUST BE REGARDED AS DIFFERENT FROM APPREHENSION WHICH IS INTERNAL (SUBJECTIVE) -BECAUSE IT IS COGNISABLE, ETC., -LIKE THE COGNITION OCCURRING IN ANOTHER Chain", -IF THIS IS URGED [THEN,
THE ANSWER IS AS IN THE NEXT Text].--(2057)
COMMENTARY.
He has argued thus :-"The Blue etc. which appear in various places must be regarded as different from Apprehension, which is internal, because they are cognisable, because they are evanescent, because they are products, and because they have causes ; just like the Cognition appearing in another Chain".
TEXT (2058).
IN THIS ARGUMENT ALSO THERE IS FALSITY' (INCONCLUSIVENESS); AS THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE, IN THESE RESPECTS, BETWEEN THE COLOUR AND THE COGNITION ; AND THERE IS INCONCLUSIVENESS' ALSO, IN VIEW OF THE 'Two MOONS AND OTHER THINGS PERCEIVED BY MEN WITH DISEASED EYES.
-(2058)
COMMENTARY.
In this argument'-i.e. in all the Reasons adduced.
Falsity-Inconclusiveness.-Because the inner cognition also has the character of 'cognisability and the rest ; just as there is 'inconclusive. ness' also in view of the two moons' that appear in the Cognition of the man with the diseased eye.
In things like the two moons', cognisability should be understood to be present in the sense that they appear in that form in the Conceptual Cognition ; because they are not really cognisable in the sense of forming the object of the cognition itself; because they are not in contact with the Sense-organ; as declared in the saying-On account of the obstruction of the Hair, etc. the visual perception does not proceed from the Sense-organ'.(2058)
In the following Texts, the Author notices and answers Kumārila's view, that what has been just cited as the basis of Inconclusiveness' (Falsity) of the Reason cannot be admitted':