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3. The third objection is that the pluralistic position is liable to the eight fallacies of contradiction:
(1) The application of existence and nonexistence to the samething is contradiction. The reply is that calling a thing both a pot and a cloth is contradiction, i. e. its existence being opposed to its non-existence. These can of course be the contradictory terms. But when we ascribe existence to the pot from the view-point of its matter and non-existence to it from the view point of its changing forms, we are not guilty of contradiction. From our point of view, a thing can admit of both existence and non-existence. From its
own peculiar characteristices, it can be said to exist and from the view-point of its negative characteristics, it may be said not to exist.
(2) The assumption of existence and nonexistence in the same object, is to say that they are both contained in one receptacle. This is the fallacy of Vaiadhikaran. There ought to be two
