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IV, 14, 10.
THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
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8. 'Legal questions of dispute. Right. Wrong. Undetermined'.
'A legal question arising out of dispute may be right, and it may be wrong, and it may be undetermined. Of these, which is the legal question arising out of dispute which is right?
* In case, O Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu of right mind discuss, saying, “ This is the Dhamma,” or “This is not the Dhamma" (&c., as before, in s 2, down to) or " This is not a most grave offence." Whatsoever quarrel, strife, contention, difference of opinion, contradiction, opposition, cantankerousness, or contention there may be in such a discussion is called a legal question arising out of dispute that is right.'
[And so when the Bhikkhus have a wrong mind, or an undetermined mind, the legal question arising out of such dispute is respectively a legal question arising out of dispute that is wrong or undetermined.]
9. 'Legal questions of censure. Right. Wrong. Undetermined.
[It may be either of the three, according as the Bhikkhus censuring (as in $ 5) have a right, wrong, or an undetermined mind. The form of the paragraph corresponds to 8 throughout.]
10. 'Legal questions of offence. Right. Wrong. Undetermined.
• There may be a legal question whether an offence is wrong, and there may be a legal question
1 We have already pointed out (above, IV, 1, 2) that this mode of the commencement of a discussion by setting out a list of the points to be discussed and compared is found also in some of the Abhidhamma books. There it was only the objects themselves, here we have all the predicates which it is proposed to apply (as in $ 8), or to declare inapplicable to the object (as in § 1o), which are set out, but the principle is the same.
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