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Part 11 · VIDEHA MITHILA MAITHILI DISCUSSION CRITICISM SERIES PART 11
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  1. 0:02–0:07A complex absence of non-manifestness is a cause of perception.
  2. 0:08–0:14The Siddhantan says, in the manifestation produced by contact with fire of colors delimited by whiteness and the like,
  3. 0:14–0:19it is impossible to accept lesser and greater extension of one and the same universal,
  4. 0:19–0:23therefore the manifestness residing in colors must be diverse.
  5. 0:23–0:28If merely manifest color is called the cause, there will be no recurrent cause.
  6. 0:28–0:41Hence the aggregate of absences of all universals of non-manifestness that are pervaded by whiteness and the like should be the cause of perception of color in the rest, otherwise recurrent perception of color would be impossible.
  7. 0:41–0:51In the same way, in perception of touch and the like, the aggregate of absences of the relevant universals of non-manifestness should be accepted as the cause.
  8. 0:51–0:57The second alternative is not to regard manifestness or non-manifestness as a universal.
  9. 0:57–1:04Possession of a universal pervaded by colorhood may be manifestness, and its absence non-manifestness.
  10. 1:04–1:21In perceptible white color there are universals such as greater whiteness and greatest whiteness, in the color of vapor, the eye, and the like there is only general whiteness, because there is no proof establishing a special universal pervaded by whiteness there, and superior whiteness is absent.
  11. 1:21–1:27It cannot be said that colourhood itself establishes a universal pervaded by whiteness and therefore
  12. 1:27–1:31that universal should be the cause of perception.
  13. 1:31–1:35Once colourhood is accepted through economy as the cause, perception of white colour is
  14. 1:35–1:41established, causal status of a special universal pervaded by whiteness is then unnecessary.
  15. 1:41–1:47Similarly, general touchhood alone suffices in perception of touch.
  16. 1:47–1:50Nor is it established that manifestness together with magnitude is the cause of
  17. 1:50–1:57perception of color because air of extremely great magnitude is not perceived.
  18. 1:57–2:00INHEBITERS OF PERCEPTION
  19. 2:00–2:05Objection, fire present in a roasting potchard and sunlight illuminating a pot situated in
  20. 2:05–2:09water ought to be perceived because the potchard and water are perceptible and therefore possess
  21. 2:09–2:14manifest color. Their particular conjunction cannot be called an inhibitor because water
  22. 2:14–2:18and potchard themselves are revealed by light, if that very conjunction were inhibitory,
  23. 2:18–2:22both fire conjoined with the pock shirt and sunlight conjoined with water would become
  24. 2:22–2:24imperceptible.
  25. 2:24–2:29If differences of conjunction are regarded as generated by universals, they would overlap,
  26. 2:29–2:34because in both cases conjunction may be produced by motion on either side.
  27. 2:34–2:39To accept many conjunctions like high and low tones is cumbersome, to regard each individual
  28. 2:39–2:42conjunction is different destroys recurrence.
  29. 2:42–2:48Reply, sunlight situated in water is in fact perceived, but because both water and
  30. 2:48–2:53light are extremely transparent, they are not distinctly seen as separate.
  31. 2:53–2:57From the part of a roasting potchard conjoined with fire there arises a particular fire whose
  32. 2:57–3:02color is non-manifest but whose touch is manifest.
  33. 3:02–3:07When a part of fire with manifest color enters extremely boiling oil, the fire is sometimes
  34. 3:07–3:09perceived.
  35. 3:09–3:14It is not accepted that curd is produced from curd atoms conjoined with milk.
  36. 3:14–3:19is a substance produced after destruction of milk, as with curdled milk, its material
  37. 3:19–3:25causes are the material causes of milk. Therefore this example does not defeat the causal status
  38. 3:25–3:32of manifest color. Magnitude is also a cause of perception.
  39. 3:32–3:37Objection, fire possessing manifest color does not possess manifest touch, cognition
  40. 3:37–3:41of heat there arises by a rule concerning another fire conjoined with heat. The causal
  41. 3:41–3:46conditions of manifest color and manifest touch in hot fire appear mutually incompatible.
  42. 3:47–3:52Reply, the undefeated recognition the very fire that I saw is what I am touching,
  43. 3:52–3:55and both seeing and touching establish both color and touch in fire.
  44. 3:56–4:00Firehood is not an inhibitor of production of touch, production and non-production of a
  45. 4:00–4:06quality arise from differences in efficient causes. Firehood pervaded by substance so this
  46. 4:06–4:11present in fire possessing manifest color and touch.
  47. 4:11–4:15Manifest color and touch coexist in water and earth, the apparent conflict in light is nearly
  48. 4:15–4:20produced by a difference of efficient causes.
  49. 4:20–4:24Magnitude related to manifest color and possession of many substances appear equally present
  50. 4:24–4:29through positive and negative concomitance in one substance, nevertheless only magnitude
  51. 4:29–4:34regulates perception of substance, and economy favors this view.
  52. 4:34–4:38In a heap of cotton, compactness increases magnitude without increasing the number of
  53. 4:38–4:43parts, and clarity of perception also increases.
  54. 4:43–4:47One should not accept possession of many substances as the cause merely because a distant mass
  55. 4:47–4:50of hair is perceived through possession of many substances or conjunction of similar
  56. 4:50–4:54hairs without an increase in the number of parts.
  57. 4:54–4:58Possession of many substances can be a cause through inherent, not through conjunction.
  58. 4:58–5:02Rather than treating conjunction of similar parts in a distant object as its auxiliary,
  59. 5:02–5:07It is simpler to treat that conjunction as an auxiliary to magnitude.
  60. 5:07–5:11Nor is it the case that possession of manifest color and magnitude are merely natural eligibility
  61. 5:11–5:15for perception of substance, not causes, like starford.
  62. 5:15–5:19Excellence of perception depends upon excellence of manifest color and magnitude, therefore
  63. 5:19–5:21both are causes.
  64. 5:21–5:25Absence of excellence in a cause does not invariably accompany absence of the effect,
  65. 5:25–5:28so the example of starford does not apply.
  66. 5:28–5:31In visual perception of substance, possession of manifest color and magnitude are both
  67. 5:31–5:39object located causes, as common recurrent properties, they delimit causal status.
  68. 5:39–5:47B of the theory of perception of air. Prima-facie view air is perceptible, possession of manifest
  69. 5:47–5:54color does not regulate perception of substance. The Prima-facie objecter says, possession
  70. 5:54–5:58of manifest color does not regulate perception of substance, because air is perceived even
  71. 5:58–6:03without manifest color. Inference, air is perceptible, because while possessing magnitude
  72. 6:03–6:06it is the locus of manifest touch, like a pot.
  73. 6:06–6:11The fact that hot vapor is perceptible does not make the reason deviant.
  74. 6:11–6:15Possession of manifest touch together with magnitude establishes tactile perceptibility,
  75. 6:15–6:18possession of manifest color does not.
  76. 6:18–6:22Nor is possession of manifest color an extraneous condition pervading both the probandum
  77. 6:22–6:27delimited by a property of the subject and the probandum delimited by the reason,
  78. 6:27–6:31because it does not establish tactile perceptibility.
  79. 6:31–6:37After operation of the tactile sense organ there is a direct experience, the air is blowing.
  80. 6:37–6:42Even if touch is not apprehended as a reason, perceptibility of a pot is not destroyed, therefore
  81. 6:42–6:47this experience cannot be explained merely as inference of air from touch.
  82. 6:47–6:51If touch were inferred, the cognition would be there is touch and air, not air is hot
  83. 6:51–6:53or air is cold.
  84. 6:53–6:58Sometimes, even when touch is not distinctly understood, there is the direct experience,
  85. 6:58–7:00the air is cold.
  86. 7:00–7:05There is no proof that this cognition arises only after air has first been inferred as a
  87. 7:05–7:09reason for cognition of a cold substance, nor does perception of a particular quality
  88. 7:09–7:14involve superimposition of an opposed quality.
  89. 7:14–7:19Nor is visual imperceptibility an inhibitor of tactile perceptibility.
  90. 7:19–7:23The eye cognizes substance alone and the skin touch, if the skin cognizes touched together
  91. 7:23–7:29with its substrate, it can also cognize touched together with its substrate in air.
  92. 7:29–7:33The rule that substance is apprehended only when number, magnitude, and the like belonging
  93. 7:33–7:39to what are apprehended does not hold in every individual perception of substance.
  94. 7:39–7:44Cloth on one's back is known by touch even when its number and magnitude are not understood,
  95. 7:44–7:48in blowing air, touch on the body and sometimes number, magnitude, and the like are also
  96. 7:48–7:51experienced.
  97. 7:51–7:55Conclusion Air is imperceptible.
  98. 7:55–7:59The Siddhantan says that air is not perceptible.
  99. 7:59–8:03When perception of substance produced by an external sense organ, possession of manifest
  100. 8:03–8:10color together with magnitude is a cause, it is improper to abandon a possible cause.
  101. 8:10–8:14Neither possession of a produced special quality apprehensible by an external sense organ
  102. 8:14–8:19nor possession of a special quality co-located with resultant magnitude is the cause, otherwise
  103. 8:19–8:24a yellow substance in the tongue, manifest bitter taste, and a fragrant substance carried
  104. 8:24–8:28by air would also have to be perceived.
  105. 8:28–8:34The prima facie rejoinder possession of manifest touch is sufficient.
  106. 8:34–8:38The prima facie objecta replies possession of manifest color is not a cause of perception
  107. 8:38–8:42of substance, otherwise the yellow substance situated in the eye would be perceived.
  108. 8:42–8:46Alternatively, possession of manifest touch may be accepted as the cause in perception
  109. 8:46–8:48of air.
  110. 8:48–8:52On this view array will not become imperceptible because array is a fiery substance and its
  111. 8:52–8:57perceptibility depends upon manifest color just as perception of hot vapor does.
  112. 8:57–9:03our conjunction, disjunction, and motion in the rays of a blue jewel and the like known.
  113. 9:03–9:06They are not perceived in moonbeams and the like.
  114. 9:06–9:10Array of a blue jewel is devoid of color in an earlier place and colored in a later
  115. 9:10–9:16place, from this, conjunction and disjunction of its substrate are inferred.
  116. 9:16–9:20Such inference as possible just as movement of air is inferred after general touch has
  117. 9:20–9:23been perceived in air.
  118. 9:23–9:27Smoke and vapor are not objects of the tactile sense, therefore even without manifest
  119. 9:27–9:32color they are objects of visual perception. To regard possession of many special qualities
  120. 9:32–9:36apprehensible by external sense organs as the cause of perception of substance is a cumbersome
  121. 9:36–9:40postulate that would make motes moving in a sunbeam imperceptible. If both possession of
  122. 9:40–9:45manifest color and possession of manifest touch are accepted as causes of perception of substance,
  123. 9:45–9:49separate causalities must be posited for visual perception of a pot and tactile perception
  124. 9:49–9:53of air. Through economy, possession of a manifest special quality that determines a
  125. 9:53–9:58perceptions a particular external sense organ should be accepted as the common cause.
  126. 9:58–10:02The objection that particular perception and general perception arise from different causal
  127. 10:02–10:06complexes, and therefore one property cannot cause perceptions of substance produced by
  128. 10:06–10:09two different sense organs, is unestablished.
  129. 10:09–10:13There is no contradiction in accepting possession of manifest colour as the cause of visual
  130. 10:13–10:17perception of substance and possession of manifest touch as the cause of tactile perception
  131. 10:17–10:19of substance.
  132. 10:19–10:22Therefore air is perceptible.
  133. 10:22–10:26The experience I touch is valid with respect to air.
  134. 10:26–10:31Objection, if air is a substance that is the object of immediate awareness produced by
  135. 10:31–10:35an external sense organ, how can colorless air be an object of perception?
  136. 10:35–10:39The rule is that a substance that is an object of immediate awareness produces color.
  137. 10:39–10:44Reply, a substance produces color only when it in his inner locus of color, merely being
  138. 10:44–10:48a substance that is an object of immediate awareness does not make it a producer of
  139. 10:48–10:49color.
  140. 10:49–10:53after color has been produced is it known in that state as a substance that is an object
  141. 10:53–10:55of perception.
  142. 10:55–10:59Nor does it follow that if a sense organ other than the eye apprehends substance, pot would
  143. 10:59–11:03become colorless, touchless, and visually imperceptible.
  144. 11:03–11:07Although the tactile sense is an external sense organ that apprehends substance, it
  145. 11:07–11:10does not apprehend color, just as the eye does not apprehend touch, nevertheless that
  146. 11:10–11:13pot is an object of touch.
  147. 11:13–11:17With respect to air, as with a pot, a subsequent cognition, I am touching, arises, therefore
  148. 11:17–11:21area is perceptible.
  149. 11:21–11:25Manifest touch alone regulates tactile perception.
  150. 11:25–11:30It may again be said that manifest color, like manifest touch, is also a cause of tactile
  151. 11:30–11:35perceptibility because substances possessing manifest color are seen to be perceived by
  152. 11:35–11:36touch.
  153. 11:36–11:41Reply, a sunray, though possessing manifest color, is imperceptible to touch, therefore
  154. 11:41–11:47manifest touch is necessary in tactile perception, while manifest color is purposeless.
  155. 11:47–11:52When manifest touch is present, absence of manifest color does not produce absence of
  156. 11:52–11:55tactile perceptibility.
  157. 11:55–12:00If it is said that manifestation located in touch is the cause but color is not, the reply
  158. 12:00–12:04is that both touch and its manifestation are causes, color is not.
  159. 12:04–12:09The universal's manifestness located in color and touch are only delimiters of causal
  160. 12:09–12:13status, not themselves causes.
  161. 12:13–12:17Modern view, air is imperceptible.
  162. 12:17–12:24Even Neayakas say, manifest touch alone does not regulate tactile perception of substance.
  163. 12:24–12:29If it did, some are heat vapor, cold and hot substances carried by air, and their numbers,
  164. 12:29–12:34magnitudes, conjunctions, disjunctions, and motions would all be perceived.
  165. 12:34–12:38Number and the like residing in an eligible individual are apprehended when the appropriate
  166. 12:38–12:43conditions are present, yet no one knows the number of hot vapor is one knows a pot
  167. 12:43–12:46by touching it with the hand.
  168. 12:46–12:50If possession of manifest color alone in general were the cause of perception of substance,
  169. 12:50–12:55the number of moonbeams and the yellow substance in the eye would be perceived.
  170. 12:55–13:02Even when subtle vapor is seen, its duality, hand-sized magnitude, or motion is not understood.
  171. 13:02–13:06Therefore both possession of manifest color and possession of manifest touch are causes
  172. 13:06–13:11and perception of substance produced by an external sense organ, because they deviate
  173. 13:11–13:14from one another, gear is imperceptible.
  174. 13:14–13:20In the cognition, the conch is yellow, only the yellowness of the eye appears, not a yellow
  175. 13:20–13:24substance, the parts of the yellow substance are dispersed like rays.
  176. 13:24–13:28Accepting this does not violate the Neayakka doctrine.
  177. 13:28–13:31This is the modern view.
  178. 13:31–13:36View of the tradition-noir air is imperceptible.
  179. 13:36–13:41The tradition-noir says, if only possession of manifest touch, and not possession of manifest
  180. 13:41–13:46color, cost perception of substance, disjunction from an eastern place in conjunction with
  181. 13:46–13:50a northern place and a row of flying birds would not be perceived, because the massive
  182. 13:50–13:54rays in the eastern and northern places lacks manifest touch.
  183. 13:54–13:58Then the inference, the row of birds is moving on the basis of the massive rays would
  184. 13:58–14:03be impossible, and inference, the moon and stars are moving from conjunction and disjunction
  185. 14:03–14:06would also be obstructed.
  186. 14:06–14:09Nor may one first infer the birds in the northeast region and then infer their
  187. 14:09–14:15conjunction and disjunction, because those regions are not perceived. Thus possession
  188. 14:15–14:20of manifest color alone is an indispensable cause of perception of air, and air is imperceptible.
  189. 14:22–14:25Explanation of the cognition, the air is cold.
  190. 14:27–14:32Objection, if air is knowable only by inference, how can cold touch qualify air in the illusion,
  191. 14:32–14:38the air is cold? Air is not an eligible substrate of cold touch. It is not enough to say that
  192. 14:38–14:42that there is no obstruction to mentioning cold touch in cognition of air in general, because
  193. 14:42–14:46attribution of the quality to a particular air is impossible.
  194. 14:46–14:50It is also difficult to regard cold touch known by the tactile sense as superimposed
  195. 14:50–14:54upon air supplied by inference, because the mind does not directly perceive the four
  196. 14:54–14:58qualities such as touch inferred through air.
  197. 14:58–15:02Nor can cold touch be mentally superimposed upon air inferred as the cause of cognition
  198. 15:02–15:08of a cold substance because air is inferred as not being a locus of cold touch.
  199. 15:08–15:13If air is cold as an illusion produced by an external sense organ, such an illusion would
  200. 15:13–15:18likewise arise through defect and inferential apprehension of a particular.
  201. 15:18–15:22It is not an erroneous inference produced by a fallacious reason because cold touch
  202. 15:22–15:26is not erroneously taken as the mark of air.
  203. 15:26–15:30Nor is identity with remembered air superimposed upon the cold substance inferred from cold
  204. 15:30–15:35touch, the cognition is an awareness of cold touch with air as its qualific hand.
  205. 15:36–15:40Even the attenuated illusion, this cold touch belongs to air is unestablished.
  206. 15:41–15:45It is not merely a mental cognition of cold touch like a dream illusion,
  207. 15:45–15:48because it follows the operation of the tactile sense organ.
  208. 15:49–15:55The tradition or replies, cold touch known in water in the like may, through a sensory defect,
  209. 15:55–15:59be superimposed upon inferred air as a property contrary to it,
  210. 15:59–16:01like an illusion of direction in space.
  211. 16:02–16:06By superimposing the character of being an inferential mark of air upon cold touch,
  212. 16:06–16:10the inference, this cold touch belongs to air, becomes possible.
  213. 16:11–16:16Then through mental superimposition the cognition this air is cold arises, like air is not hot.
  214. 16:17–16:20Therefore air is knowable only through inference.
  215. 16:22–16:25Establishment of the air is blowing and cold air is blowing.
  216. 16:25–16:32Objection, after operation of the tactile sense, how can one infer, the air is blowing,
  217. 16:32–16:36when conjunction and disjunction, which are reasons for movement, are imperceptible.
  218. 16:36–16:40If impact of air upon the body is called the reason, impact itself is a conjunction and
  219. 16:40–16:42therefore imperceptible.
  220. 16:42–16:48Reply, from a particular pleasure or pain produced by impact, impact upon the body
  221. 16:48–16:53is inferred, in that impact, production by a swift stream possessing touch is inferred,
  222. 16:53–16:56from the stream the blowing motion of air is inferred.
  223. 16:56–17:02A person who does not know this mediating process does not infer blowing.
  224. 17:02–17:08A further question, how is there one qualified inferential cognition cold air is blowing?
  225. 17:08–17:12Cognition of air qualified by cold touch is mental, while cognition of the blowing motion
  226. 17:12–17:16is inferential, there would be an overlap of kinds.
  227. 17:16–17:21Reply, the blowing motion is inferred and air remembered is qualified by cold touch,
  228. 17:21–17:27Therefore one inferential qualified cognition of air is qualified by blowing motion is possible.
  229. 17:27–17:33Cold touch and blowing motion are not jointly apprehended in air at one and the same moment.
  230. 17:33–17:38This is not faulted by cumbersomeness of postulation, because perception of both qualifiers in air
  231. 17:38–17:42is prevented by a stronger defeater.
  232. 17:42–17:46Once possession of manifest color is established as a cause and perception of substance produced
  233. 17:46–17:52by an external sense organ, possession of manifest color, pervading the probandum delimited by
  234. 17:52–17:57a property of the subject or the probandum delimited by the reason, becomes an extraneous condition
  235. 17:57–18:02of the inference proving perception of error. There is no fault of proving something else
  236. 18:02–18:08or of deviation in the qualificand, ultimately deviation of the probandum perceptibility in
  237. 18:08–18:13error and absence of the qualificand are established. Therefore error is infurable,
  238. 18:13–18:18not perceptible. The self is perceptible, air is not.
  239. 18:20–18:24Objection, if possession of manifest color regulates perception of substance,
  240. 18:24–18:30the self, like air, would also become imperceptible. It cannot be said that the cognition, I know,
  241. 18:30–18:34occurs without apprehension of a reason and therefore cognition of the self is not inferential.
  242. 18:34–18:39A person who does not know the self cannot have the qualified cognition, I know, hence this
  243. 18:39–18:45cognition can serve as the inferential mark. If the self were inferrable, the present tense cognition,
  244. 18:45–18:49I now know a pot, would be impossible, because the cognition of the pot would be destroyed in the
  245. 18:49–18:54third moment before inference of the self. This objection can be answered by a gross temporal
  246. 18:54–18:58adjunct, just as from seeing a pot as activity one infers, the potter is making a pot.
  247. 19:00–19:04Conclusion, the self is perceptible. The recognition, I who saw the pot and the very
  248. 19:04–19:10one touching it, directly presents the identity of the self. This is not merely an inference
  249. 19:10–19:14that, i, the locus of cognition of the pot produced by the tactile sense, are identical
  250. 19:14–19:18with the locus of visual cognition, because in such recognition the, i, itself is the object
  251. 19:18–19:24of its cognition, just as, i, is the locus of cognition. If the i form were imperceptible,
  252. 19:24–19:28the inferential mark itself would become imperceptible.
  253. 19:28–19:32To infer the self first from cognition, then infer ownership by the self and cognition,
  254. 19:32–19:37finally infer in the self-objecthood for eye cognition is an unnecessary sequence.
  255. 19:38–19:43The recognition eye who saw the pot and the very one touching it occurs even in a person who does
  256. 19:43–19:50not know such a procedure. There is no such recognition with respect to air. Air that is
  257. 19:50–19:55blown backward is continuously moving and is not cognized again. The cognition in the air
  258. 19:55–19:59that blew behind is now blowing ahead is not a direct recognition of numerical identity but
  259. 19:59–20:03but only an inference of substancehood belonging to the same kind.
  260. 20:03–20:07Thus the conclusion is, air is not perceived by an external sense organ,
  261. 20:07–20:12because it is a colorless substance, like ether.
  262. 20:12–20:14Nor will being the locus of manifest touch,
  263. 20:14–20:17which pervades the probandum occurring in the reason,
  264. 20:17–20:18be an extraneous condition,
  265. 20:18–20:22because manifest touch is not the reason in the original inference,
  266. 20:22–20:27hence that property cannot become an extraneous condition pervading the probandum.
  267. 20:27–20:38thus ends the theory of perception of air. See, the theory that gold is fiery. If possession
  268. 20:38–20:45of manifest touch is accepted as the cause, gold will be imperceptible. Again, if possession
  269. 20:45–20:50of manifest touch is accepted as the cause of immediate awareness of substance produced
  270. 20:50–20:55by an external sense organ, the fiery substance gold will not be perceptible, for, as an
  271. 20:55–21:01array, touch in fiery gold is non-manifest. Its color is indeed manifest, but the supporting
  272. 21:01–21:05yellow color overwhelms it.
  273. 21:05–21:10Overwhelming means relation to a stronger color of the same kind.
  274. 21:10–21:13Therefore the manifest color of gold can be overwhelmed even when the yellow color is
  275. 21:13–21:16not apprehended in darkness.
  276. 21:16–21:21It cannot be said that even overwhelmed fire is perceived in darkness, that gold therefore
  277. 21:21–21:26ought to be perceived, and that a second fire cannot be accepted to reveal fire.
  278. 21:26–21:31A substance is visually perceived only when its color is perceived.
  279. 21:31–21:35Since the real color of gold is overwhelmed by yellow color it is not perceived, and in
  280. 21:35–21:40the absence of rays the supporting yellow color too is not perceived, therefore gold
  281. 21:40–21:41remains imperceptible.

Plain text

A complex absence of non-manifestness is a cause of perception. The Siddhantan says, in the manifestation produced by contact with fire of colors delimited by whiteness and the like, it is impossible to accept lesser and greater extension of one and the same universal, therefore the manifestness residing in colors must be diverse. If merely manifest color is called the cause, there will be no recurrent cause. Hence the aggregate of absences of all universals of non-manifestness that are pervaded by whiteness and the like should be the cause of perception of color in the rest, otherwise recurrent perception of color would be impossible. In the same way, in perception of touch and the like, the aggregate of absences of the relevant universals of non-manifestness should be accepted as the cause. The second alternative is not to regard manifestness or non-manifestness as a universal. Possession of a universal pervaded by colorhood may be manifestness, and its absence non-manifestness. In perceptible white color there are universals such as greater whiteness and greatest whiteness, in the color of vapor, the eye, and the like there is only general whiteness, because there is no proof establishing a special universal pervaded by whiteness there, and superior whiteness is absent. It cannot be said that colourhood itself establishes a universal pervaded by whiteness and therefore that universal should be the cause of perception. Once colourhood is accepted through economy as the cause, perception of white colour is established, causal status of a special universal pervaded by whiteness is then unnecessary. Similarly, general touchhood alone suffices in perception of touch. Nor is it established that manifestness together with magnitude is the cause of perception of color because air of extremely great magnitude is not perceived. INHEBITERS OF PERCEPTION Objection, fire present in a roasting potchard and sunlight illuminating a pot situated in water ought to be perceived because the potchard and water are perceptible and therefore possess manifest color. Their particular conjunction cannot be called an inhibitor because water and potchard themselves are revealed by light, if that very conjunction were inhibitory, both fire conjoined with the pock shirt and sunlight conjoined with water would become imperceptible. If differences of conjunction are regarded as generated by universals, they would overlap, because in both cases conjunction may be produced by motion on either side. To accept many conjunctions like high and low tones is cumbersome, to regard each individual conjunction is different destroys recurrence. Reply, sunlight situated in water is in fact perceived, but because both water and light are extremely transparent, they are not distinctly seen as separate. From the part of a roasting potchard conjoined with fire there arises a particular fire whose color is non-manifest but whose touch is manifest. When a part of fire with manifest color enters extremely boiling oil, the fire is sometimes perceived. It is not accepted that curd is produced from curd atoms conjoined with milk. is a substance produced after destruction of milk, as with curdled milk, its material causes are the material causes of milk. Therefore this example does not defeat the causal status of manifest color. Magnitude is also a cause of perception. Objection, fire possessing manifest color does not possess manifest touch, cognition of heat there arises by a rule concerning another fire conjoined with heat. The causal conditions of manifest color and manifest touch in hot fire appear mutually incompatible. Reply, the undefeated recognition the very fire that I saw is what I am touching, and both seeing and touching establish both color and touch in fire. Firehood is not an inhibitor of production of touch, production and non-production of a quality arise from differences in efficient causes. Firehood pervaded by substance so this present in fire possessing manifest color and touch. Manifest color and touch coexist in water and earth, the apparent conflict in light is nearly produced by a difference of efficient causes. Magnitude related to manifest color and possession of many substances appear equally present through positive and negative concomitance in one substance, nevertheless only magnitude regulates perception of substance, and economy favors this view. In a heap of cotton, compactness increases magnitude without increasing the number of parts, and clarity of perception also increases. One should not accept possession of many substances as the cause merely because a distant mass of hair is perceived through possession of many substances or conjunction of similar hairs without an increase in the number of parts. Possession of many substances can be a cause through inherent, not through conjunction. Rather than treating conjunction of similar parts in a distant object as its auxiliary, It is simpler to treat that conjunction as an auxiliary to magnitude. Nor is it the case that possession of manifest color and magnitude are merely natural eligibility for perception of substance, not causes, like starford. Excellence of perception depends upon excellence of manifest color and magnitude, therefore both are causes. Absence of excellence in a cause does not invariably accompany absence of the effect, so the example of starford does not apply. In visual perception of substance, possession of manifest color and magnitude are both object located causes, as common recurrent properties, they delimit causal status. B of the theory of perception of air. Prima-facie view air is perceptible, possession of manifest color does not regulate perception of substance. The Prima-facie objecter says, possession of manifest color does not regulate perception of substance, because air is perceived even without manifest color. Inference, air is perceptible, because while possessing magnitude it is the locus of manifest touch, like a pot. The fact that hot vapor is perceptible does not make the reason deviant. Possession of manifest touch together with magnitude establishes tactile perceptibility, possession of manifest color does not. Nor is possession of manifest color an extraneous condition pervading both the probandum delimited by a property of the subject and the probandum delimited by the reason, because it does not establish tactile perceptibility. After operation of the tactile sense organ there is a direct experience, the air is blowing. Even if touch is not apprehended as a reason, perceptibility of a pot is not destroyed, therefore this experience cannot be explained merely as inference of air from touch. If touch were inferred, the cognition would be there is touch and air, not air is hot or air is cold. Sometimes, even when touch is not distinctly understood, there is the direct experience, the air is cold. There is no proof that this cognition arises only after air has first been inferred as a reason for cognition of a cold substance, nor does perception of a particular quality involve superimposition of an opposed quality. Nor is visual imperceptibility an inhibitor of tactile perceptibility. The eye cognizes substance alone and the skin touch, if the skin cognizes touched together with its substrate, it can also cognize touched together with its substrate in air. The rule that substance is apprehended only when number, magnitude, and the like belonging to what are apprehended does not hold in every individual perception of substance. Cloth on one's back is known by touch even when its number and magnitude are not understood, in blowing air, touch on the body and sometimes number, magnitude, and the like are also experienced. Conclusion Air is imperceptible. The Siddhantan says that air is not perceptible. When perception of substance produced by an external sense organ, possession of manifest color together with magnitude is a cause, it is improper to abandon a possible cause. Neither possession of a produced special quality apprehensible by an external sense organ nor possession of a special quality co-located with resultant magnitude is the cause, otherwise a yellow substance in the tongue, manifest bitter taste, and a fragrant substance carried by air would also have to be perceived. The prima facie rejoinder possession of manifest touch is sufficient. The prima facie objecta replies possession of manifest color is not a cause of perception of substance, otherwise the yellow substance situated in the eye would be perceived. Alternatively, possession of manifest touch may be accepted as the cause in perception of air. On this view array will not become imperceptible because array is a fiery substance and its perceptibility depends upon manifest color just as perception of hot vapor does. our conjunction, disjunction, and motion in the rays of a blue jewel and the like known. They are not perceived in moonbeams and the like. Array of a blue jewel is devoid of color in an earlier place and colored in a later place, from this, conjunction and disjunction of its substrate are inferred. Such inference as possible just as movement of air is inferred after general touch has been perceived in air. Smoke and vapor are not objects of the tactile sense, therefore even without manifest color they are objects of visual perception. To regard possession of many special qualities apprehensible by external sense organs as the cause of perception of substance is a cumbersome postulate that would make motes moving in a sunbeam imperceptible. If both possession of manifest color and possession of manifest touch are accepted as causes of perception of substance, separate causalities must be posited for visual perception of a pot and tactile perception of air. Through economy, possession of a manifest special quality that determines a perceptions a particular external sense organ should be accepted as the common cause. The objection that particular perception and general perception arise from different causal complexes, and therefore one property cannot cause perceptions of substance produced by two different sense organs, is unestablished. There is no contradiction in accepting possession of manifest colour as the cause of visual perception of substance and possession of manifest touch as the cause of tactile perception of substance. Therefore air is perceptible. The experience I touch is valid with respect to air. Objection, if air is a substance that is the object of immediate awareness produced by an external sense organ, how can colorless air be an object of perception? The rule is that a substance that is an object of immediate awareness produces color. Reply, a substance produces color only when it in his inner locus of color, merely being a substance that is an object of immediate awareness does not make it a producer of color. after color has been produced is it known in that state as a substance that is an object of perception. Nor does it follow that if a sense organ other than the eye apprehends substance, pot would become colorless, touchless, and visually imperceptible. Although the tactile sense is an external sense organ that apprehends substance, it does not apprehend color, just as the eye does not apprehend touch, nevertheless that pot is an object of touch. With respect to air, as with a pot, a subsequent cognition, I am touching, arises, therefore area is perceptible. Manifest touch alone regulates tactile perception. It may again be said that manifest color, like manifest touch, is also a cause of tactile perceptibility because substances possessing manifest color are seen to be perceived by touch. Reply, a sunray, though possessing manifest color, is imperceptible to touch, therefore manifest touch is necessary in tactile perception, while manifest color is purposeless. When manifest touch is present, absence of manifest color does not produce absence of tactile perceptibility. If it is said that manifestation located in touch is the cause but color is not, the reply is that both touch and its manifestation are causes, color is not. The universal's manifestness located in color and touch are only delimiters of causal status, not themselves causes. Modern view, air is imperceptible. Even Neayakas say, manifest touch alone does not regulate tactile perception of substance. If it did, some are heat vapor, cold and hot substances carried by air, and their numbers, magnitudes, conjunctions, disjunctions, and motions would all be perceived. Number and the like residing in an eligible individual are apprehended when the appropriate conditions are present, yet no one knows the number of hot vapor is one knows a pot by touching it with the hand. If possession of manifest color alone in general were the cause of perception of substance, the number of moonbeams and the yellow substance in the eye would be perceived. Even when subtle vapor is seen, its duality, hand-sized magnitude, or motion is not understood. Therefore both possession of manifest color and possession of manifest touch are causes and perception of substance produced by an external sense organ, because they deviate from one another, gear is imperceptible. In the cognition, the conch is yellow, only the yellowness of the eye appears, not a yellow substance, the parts of the yellow substance are dispersed like rays. Accepting this does not violate the Neayakka doctrine. This is the modern view. View of the tradition-noir air is imperceptible. The tradition-noir says, if only possession of manifest touch, and not possession of manifest color, cost perception of substance, disjunction from an eastern place in conjunction with a northern place and a row of flying birds would not be perceived, because the massive rays in the eastern and northern places lacks manifest touch. Then the inference, the row of birds is moving on the basis of the massive rays would be impossible, and inference, the moon and stars are moving from conjunction and disjunction would also be obstructed. Nor may one first infer the birds in the northeast region and then infer their conjunction and disjunction, because those regions are not perceived. Thus possession of manifest color alone is an indispensable cause of perception of air, and air is imperceptible. Explanation of the cognition, the air is cold. Objection, if air is knowable only by inference, how can cold touch qualify air in the illusion, the air is cold? Air is not an eligible substrate of cold touch. It is not enough to say that that there is no obstruction to mentioning cold touch in cognition of air in general, because attribution of the quality to a particular air is impossible. It is also difficult to regard cold touch known by the tactile sense as superimposed upon air supplied by inference, because the mind does not directly perceive the four qualities such as touch inferred through air. Nor can cold touch be mentally superimposed upon air inferred as the cause of cognition of a cold substance because air is inferred as not being a locus of cold touch. If air is cold as an illusion produced by an external sense organ, such an illusion would likewise arise through defect and inferential apprehension of a particular. It is not an erroneous inference produced by a fallacious reason because cold touch is not erroneously taken as the mark of air. Nor is identity with remembered air superimposed upon the cold substance inferred from cold touch, the cognition is an awareness of cold touch with air as its qualific hand. Even the attenuated illusion, this cold touch belongs to air is unestablished. It is not merely a mental cognition of cold touch like a dream illusion, because it follows the operation of the tactile sense organ. The tradition or replies, cold touch known in water in the like may, through a sensory defect, be superimposed upon inferred air as a property contrary to it, like an illusion of direction in space. By superimposing the character of being an inferential mark of air upon cold touch, the inference, this cold touch belongs to air, becomes possible. Then through mental superimposition the cognition this air is cold arises, like air is not hot. Therefore air is knowable only through inference. Establishment of the air is blowing and cold air is blowing. Objection, after operation of the tactile sense, how can one infer, the air is blowing, when conjunction and disjunction, which are reasons for movement, are imperceptible. If impact of air upon the body is called the reason, impact itself is a conjunction and therefore imperceptible. Reply, from a particular pleasure or pain produced by impact, impact upon the body is inferred, in that impact, production by a swift stream possessing touch is inferred, from the stream the blowing motion of air is inferred. A person who does not know this mediating process does not infer blowing. A further question, how is there one qualified inferential cognition cold air is blowing? Cognition of air qualified by cold touch is mental, while cognition of the blowing motion is inferential, there would be an overlap of kinds. Reply, the blowing motion is inferred and air remembered is qualified by cold touch, Therefore one inferential qualified cognition of air is qualified by blowing motion is possible. Cold touch and blowing motion are not jointly apprehended in air at one and the same moment. This is not faulted by cumbersomeness of postulation, because perception of both qualifiers in air is prevented by a stronger defeater. Once possession of manifest color is established as a cause and perception of substance produced by an external sense organ, possession of manifest color, pervading the probandum delimited by a property of the subject or the probandum delimited by the reason, becomes an extraneous condition of the inference proving perception of error. There is no fault of proving something else or of deviation in the qualificand, ultimately deviation of the probandum perceptibility in error and absence of the qualificand are established. Therefore error is infurable, not perceptible. The self is perceptible, air is not. Objection, if possession of manifest color regulates perception of substance, the self, like air, would also become imperceptible. It cannot be said that the cognition, I know, occurs without apprehension of a reason and therefore cognition of the self is not inferential. A person who does not know the self cannot have the qualified cognition, I know, hence this cognition can serve as the inferential mark. If the self were inferrable, the present tense cognition, I now know a pot, would be impossible, because the cognition of the pot would be destroyed in the third moment before inference of the self. This objection can be answered by a gross temporal adjunct, just as from seeing a pot as activity one infers, the potter is making a pot. Conclusion, the self is perceptible. The recognition, I who saw the pot and the very one touching it, directly presents the identity of the self. This is not merely an inference that, i, the locus of cognition of the pot produced by the tactile sense, are identical with the locus of visual cognition, because in such recognition the, i, itself is the object of its cognition, just as, i, is the locus of cognition. If the i form were imperceptible, the inferential mark itself would become imperceptible. To infer the self first from cognition, then infer ownership by the self and cognition, finally infer in the self-objecthood for eye cognition is an unnecessary sequence. The recognition eye who saw the pot and the very one touching it occurs even in a person who does not know such a procedure. There is no such recognition with respect to air. Air that is blown backward is continuously moving and is not cognized again. The cognition in the air that blew behind is now blowing ahead is not a direct recognition of numerical identity but but only an inference of substancehood belonging to the same kind. Thus the conclusion is, air is not perceived by an external sense organ, because it is a colorless substance, like ether. Nor will being the locus of manifest touch, which pervades the probandum occurring in the reason, be an extraneous condition, because manifest touch is not the reason in the original inference, hence that property cannot become an extraneous condition pervading the probandum. thus ends the theory of perception of air. See, the theory that gold is fiery. If possession of manifest touch is accepted as the cause, gold will be imperceptible. Again, if possession of manifest touch is accepted as the cause of immediate awareness of substance produced by an external sense organ, the fiery substance gold will not be perceptible, for, as an array, touch in fiery gold is non-manifest. Its color is indeed manifest, but the supporting yellow color overwhelms it. Overwhelming means relation to a stronger color of the same kind. Therefore the manifest color of gold can be overwhelmed even when the yellow color is not apprehended in darkness. It cannot be said that even overwhelmed fire is perceived in darkness, that gold therefore ought to be perceived, and that a second fire cannot be accepted to reveal fire. A substance is visually perceived only when its color is perceived. Since the real color of gold is overwhelmed by yellow color it is not perceived, and in the absence of rays the supporting yellow color too is not perceived, therefore gold remains imperceptible.

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