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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXV.
CONVICTION WOULD BE GOT AT EITHER THROUGH PRESUMPTION, OR THROUGH INFERENCE, OR THROUGH SOME OTHER MEANS OF COGNITION; SO THAT IT WOULD BE DERIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN THE COGNITION ITSELF.-(3062-3065)
COMMENTARY. Through Relative Negation, Absence of Defects' would be the same as Excellences'; hence the Cognition of the said absence also would be the same as the Cognition of Excellencer ;--and this cannot be desirable (for you); because of your assertion that-"The Excellences do not operate, as cognised".
The 'absence of the two kinds of Invalid Cognition also becomes the same as "Valid Cognition, under the view that it is Relative Negation that is meant by 'absence'; hence the Cognition of the absence of the two kinds of Invalid Cognition also would be of the nature of the intended Valid Cognition'; and in that cause the assertion-that "there is absence of the two kinds of Invalid Cognition, hence the general law remains undenied ", cannot be right; as it involves & confusion of thought ; for instance, the same Cognition being known to be valid,-if from that same fact it is deduced that the Cognition is valid, such a confused assertion of Cause and Effect, becomes difficult to understand; as there is no difference (between the two Cognitions). Further, if the two were regarded as different, because the cause must be different from the effect, then it comes to this that 'the Cognition of the absence of the two kinds of Invalid Cognition' is different from the Cognition of the valid Cognition'; while it is not right to regard what is of the nature of Relative Negation, as different from the valid Cognition.
Or, in case the absence of the two kinds, etc. etc. This arguinent admits (for the sake of argument) the Cognition of the absence of the two kinds of Invalid Cognition', and then, in accordance with the views of the other party, shows that the Validity of Cognitions becomes extraneous.
Due to the fact that well-known facts, etc. etc. That is, "there is no other alternative possible except the self-validity of all Cognitions except the Doubtful and Wrong Cognitions":-(3062-3065)
The following Text proceeds to show the Inconclusive character of the reasoning set forth in the assertion that-"From Excellences follows the absence of defects, etc.".-(Shlokavdrtika 1. 1. 2; 65):
TEXTS (3066–3070).
FROM THAT SAME REASONING OF YOURS IT MIGHT FOLLOW THAT THE
INVALIDITY IS INHERENT IN COGNITIONS ; AS THE SAME ARGUMENTS APPLY CLEARLY TO, AND CAN BE ASSERTED IN REGARD TO, THAT VIEW ALSO ; --HENCE IT IS THE ABSENCE OF EXCELLENCE THAT FOLLOWS FROM THE DEFECTS; AND FROM THAT ABSENCE FOLLOWS THE ABSENCE OF VALIDITY ; HENCE THE GENERAL LAW STANDS
