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contradictions, (6) being devoid of any sound basis, (c) containing assertions unsupported by proofs and (d) being accepted by only a few low and beast-like persons Mlecchas and others. (44) The particle 'tu' (' and ') distinguishes 'Valid
Assertion' from 'Inference'. What the Sentence • Valid Assertion' expresses (the meaning) is an object cognised distinct from 'In ference'
( by means of that Sentence ); but the
Sentence is not a 'property' (characteristic) of that object, and hence it could not serve as its infer. ential indication (as the Smoke :s of the Fire). Further, when the Sentence expresses its meaning it does not stand in need of a previous connection ( concomitance ) between itself and the meaning; as we find that in the case of the work of a new poet, the sentence is one never heard before and it, therefore, expresses a meaning that has never before been cognised as expressed by that sentence. [ So that there has been no previous cognition of the invariable concomitance between the Sentence and the Meaning, and without the cognition of such concomitance, there can be no Inference ]. (45) Thus then, the nature of Means of Cognition 'in
c . general and of that of the particular means 'Means of Cogni. tion" posited in of cognition being as described above, -it other Systems in- follows that all the other means of cognition, cluded in those
-such as · Analogy' and the rest,- which
have been posited in the other philosophical systems, are all included among those that have been des. cribed above. (46) For instance, 'Analogy' has been illustrated by
means of the assertion 'As the Cow so the 'Analogy 'includ... led under validegava ya'; and (in as much as this is a verbal Auertion', and assertion ), the cognition brought about by its "Inference and Perseption'
means must be regarded as purely Verbal.As for the notion that 'the term gavaya is
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| SR No. | 010561 |
| Book Title | Tattva Kaumudi |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Oriental Book Agency Poona |
| Publisher | Oriental Book Agency Poona |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 329 |
| Language | Hindi, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 19 MB |