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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXI.
Nor is the Probans 'Contradictory'; because it is present wherever the Probandum is known to be present.-(2079)
Another party urges the fact of the Corroborative Instance (* Reflection') being devoid of the Probandum
TEXT (2080).
" IN THE CASE OF REFLECTION ALSO, THE COGNITION IS REGARDED AS HAVING AN OBJECTIVE BASIS; AS IT IS FOUND THAT ON THE VISUAL RAYS BEING TURNED BACK, ONE'S OWN FACE IS
SEEN AS IT IS IN THE REFLEOTION."-(2080)
COMMENTARY.
"The light-rays, issuing from the eyes and falling upon the surface of the Mirror, become turned back and thus become connected with one's own face, and then they bring about the cognition of the face. Thus it is the face itself that is seen as within the Mirror. So that it becomes established that the Cognition of the Reflection is not devoid of the Apprehender and the Apprehended."-(2080)
The answer to the above is provided in the following:
TEXT (2081).
IT IS NOT HIS OWN FACE THAT ONE SEES IN THE MIRROR, BECAUSE IT IS SEEN IN FRONT OF ONE'S SELF, AND BECAUSE WHAT IS SEEN IS DIFFERENT IN SIZE, POSITION, ETO. (FROM ONE'S PACE), -
LIKE ANY OTHER OBJECT.-(2081)
COMMENTARY.
It is not his own face that one sees in the mirror,-because the face seen there stands before one's self-also because what is seen has a position, size, complexion and other details different from the face. — Like any other objecti e, like such things as sound and the like.
What is meant is as follows: If the Cognition were the Apprehender of the face, then it should have apprehended it exactly as the face itself actually stands; because it cannot be right for the Apprehender of one form to apprehend a thing of another form. If this were possible, then there would be incongruities. As a matter of fact, when a man facing the South looks at the mirror, what he perceives in the mirror is the face facing the North ; similarly, if the mirror is a small one, the face that he sees in the reflection is smaller than his own face; and it is also perceived as touching the mirror's surface and lying far beneath it. In reality however, the mirror's surface is not of that size, nor is it really in contact with the real face. Similarly when a man is standing on the bank of a lake of clear water, and looks at