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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF SELF-SUFFICIENT VALIDITY'. 1377
to be extraneous, not inherent; which view is not open to objection. This is what has been thus declared The Cognition itself is cognised by itself, but its validity is ascertained by usage!
Tathätvē'-regarding its validity--(3098-3099)
It has boon argued under Text 2913, that-"Like valid Cognition, Invalid Cognition also operates upon its object by itself; but the fact of its being false cannot be apprehended without another means of Cognition".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3100). JUST AS REPEATED COGNITION IS REGARDED AS VALID BY ITSELF, -50 ALSO IN SOME CASES WRONG COGNITION IS INVALID BY ITSELF.
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COMMENTARY. * Repeated Cognition '—such Cognition as has been apprehended repeatedly.
Just as in some cases validity is recognised as self-sufficient--as asserted above ;--in the same manner, in some cases, wrongness or Invalidity also is recognised by itself. For instance, it is found that people suffering from deranged vision recognise, through repeated experience, the wrongness of the illusion regarding the Hair-tuft' immediately after its appearance. -(3100)
It has been argued under Text 2914, that—"It is only when there appears tha Cognition of the truth being otherwise that the falsity of & Cognition becomes recognised ".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3101).
IT HAS BEEN ALREADY EXPLAINED THAT THE IDEA OF FALSITY OF THE COGNITION BEING DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF SUBLATING COGNITIONS AND TO THE COGNITION OF ITS SOURCE BEING DEFECTIVE' INVOLVES INFINITE REGRESS. HENCE THE falsity (INVALIDITY) CANNOT BE RECOGNISED MERELY ON THE
BASIS OF THE SAID COGNITIONS.—(3101)
COMMENTARY.
Already explained 'under Text 3004. Tat-Hence.--(3101)