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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1515
TEXTS (3444–3446).
THE COGNITION IN QUESTION IS VOUCHED FOR BY 'PERCEPTION', BECAUSE
IT IS CLEARLY MANIFEST, AND IS IN KEEPING WITH THE REAL NATURE OF THINGS; JUST LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF Blue AND OTHER THINGS, ARISING FROM THE CONTACT OF THE EYE AND OTHER SENSE-ORGANS. THE SINGLE CLEAR APPEARANCE OF ALL THINGS IN A SINGLE COGNITION IS QUITE POSSIBLE, --WHICH PLEASE UNDERSTAND; ALSO BECAUSE THINGS ARE SO CONCEIVED OF, LIKE THE WOMAN, THE SON AND THE THIEF; CONCEPTION TOO IS NOT DIFFICULT TO GET AT, AS IT CAN PRESENT ITSELF BEFORE ONE BY MERELY WISHING FOR IT.-(34443446)
COMMENTARY.
As it is clearly manifested, it cannot be merely fanciful; as it envisages things vouched for by means of Right Cognition, it cannot be incompatible with the reality; hence it must be regarded as a valid form of Perception, like the Visual and other perceptions.
Thus it having been proved that it arises from mere conception and is clearly manifest, it also becomes proved that all things become clearly manifested simultaneously in a single cognition; and thus the Invariable Concomitance becomes established, and we get the Premiss that 'all things can appear clearly in a single cognition at one and the same time'.The argument may be formulated as follows:- Things that are conceived of are capablo of being clearly manifested in a single cognition;-e.g. the Woman and other things;-all things are conceived of;-hence this is a Reason based upon the nature of things.
The Reason cannot be regarded as 'Inadmissible':-this is pointed out by the next sentence- Conception too is not, etc. etc. That is, the possibility of conception having been proved before, the Reason cannot be regarded as 'Inadmissible':-(3444-3446)
Having thus established the Invariable Concoinitance by pointing out that the capacity of being clearly manifested is connected with mere conception, the author now proceeds to point out the main purport of his argument:
TEXTS (3447-3449).
ALL THINGS MUST BE REGARDED AS CLEARLY MANIFESTED BY THE
ONE COGNITION THAT REPRESENTS THE HIGHEST STAGE OF THE CONCEPTION BECAUSE OF SUCH REASONS AS BEING ENTITIES', 'BEING EXISTENT AND THE LIKE,-LIKE THE BELOVED WOMAN AND OTHERS.-SIMILARLY, WHEN THE CERTAINTY REGARDING A THING IS CAPABLE OF BEING PROVED BY SUCH REASONS AS 'BEING AN ENTITY', 'BEING EXISTENT', 'BEING PRODUCED' AND THE LIKE,-WHO IS THERE WHO WILL NOT REGARD IT AS WELL-ESTABLISHED ?
