World of Philosophy

Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan

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within logical padartha), technically conjunct is preferred and its fitting object is samanyalakasana - laksana being the 'structure of cognition', thus sameness as a common generic feature, prakarata, structuring the cognition, (Commentators continue to use sannikarsa, p. 241). So it is not just samanya as jati (e.g. natural kind universals or real universals in LockeanKripean distinction forged over nominal universals), or smokeness in seeing smoke oozing out of the fresh dung, dust, with which the sense-organ has direct contact), but the association of this smokeness to all instances of smoky things generically, remembered and otherwise, is said to be critical here: this hypergeneric coordinate is the conjunct in the cognition: samanyalaksana, (tatha hi dhumadau caksusamyoganantaram dhumadivisesyakam dhumatvadiprakarakam dhuma itiyadyakarakam jnanam jayate). 3. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'Moving Devi', in Vidya Dehejia, Devi The Great Goddess, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Catalogue), Smithsonian Institution, Washinton D.C. with Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, 1999, pp. 181200. Trying to move us out of 'yesterday's talk' : "I went to Banaras and was overwhelmed by the experience of the gods and goddesses of Hinduism which made me reflect deeply on my Jewish-Christian God". There are now over three million Indians of various descents/ascents (descends/ascends) in this continent to stop pretending that chamra-bound southern Baptists are only audience.
Bhagavadgita chp 11
Asattirasrayanatu samanyajnanamisyate Tadindriyaja-taddharmabodhasamgriyapeksyate (B.P. 64)
Here the awareness of the generic sameness structure is identified as the conjunct (asatti, pratyasatti) with the supportbase (substratums) to which the particulars are associated. The complete commeasurement involved in the perception correlative to the indriya, sense instrument, is the unmitigated condition. (That is, the eye, the radiance, the mind, generic features, and contact, etc, must all be involved in this awareness-generation as well, to rule out possibility of simple abstractions and conceptual elopements). 6. I have deliberately skipped a step in the descriptive narrative of sameness appropriating, which connects the above observations to this one: Visayi yasya tasyaiva vyaparao jnanalaksanah. This verse underscores the facticity of the knowledge of the specific, unique and unusual universal as the transacting connection in the cognitive episode with its object cognized and via this connection mutatis mutandis knowledge of all object-substratums that possess this universal. A question is discussed in the commentaries: but how can you say such one knows all the smokes and fires, when these are not there, and is he therefore omniscient? The answer is smokes and fires do not have to be eternally present (somethings do), and what is known is not
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