瑜伽論記 5.82

5.82

順前句者，謂法中隨取二法更互相問，依止前法以答所問，以狹問寬順前句故。順後句者，謂則二法展轉相問，依後句以答所問，以寬問狹順後句故，一切狹體必則寬故，自有寬體非是狹故，或於所問、應二句答、應三句答、應四句答，此中從寬以明唯說四句，體有寬狹或不同故，寬狹義同應述可答，亦名如是答，所問不如理答。言不爾名無事答，亦名遮止答，廣如對法第十五卷，彼云：分別顯示決擇者，謂於如所說蘊等法中，隨其所應作一行順前句順後句二句三句四句述可句遮止句等，論決擇者，謂依八何八若之詞問答決擇一切真偽。又若婆沙九十七卷，廣明小四句中四句大四句及如是句等，其二十八對二門，五三門等，皆如決擇分六十五等說，於中心心所法名有所緣相應，有行相有所依，餘可知也。

Regarding the "clause conforming to the preceding", taking any two phenomena among phenomena and questioning them mutually, one answers the question based on the preceding phenomenon; questioning the broad with the narrow conforms to the preceding clause. Regarding the "clause conforming to the subsequent", questioning two phenomena mutually in turn, one answers the question based on the subsequent clause; questioning the narrow with the broad conforms to the subsequent clause, because every narrow entity necessarily entails the broad, while there are broad entities that are not narrow. Or, toward the question, one should answer with two clauses, three clauses, or four clauses. Here, proceeding from the broad to explain, only four clauses are stated, because their entities have broad and narrow distinctions or are not the same. When the broad and narrow meanings are identical, one should answer with assent; this is also called answering "it is so". When the question is not in accordance with reason, answering "it is not so" is called answering without fact; it is also called answering with negation. This is explained extensively in the fifteenth fascicle of the Abhidharma, which says: Discerning and demonstrating determination means, within the stated phenomena such as the aggregates, making a single traversal, a clause conforming to the preceding, a clause conforming to the subsequent, two clauses, three clauses, four clauses, an assenting clause, a negating clause, and so on as appropriate. Doctrinal determination means determining all truth and falsity by question and answer based on the words of the eight "what"s and eight "if"s. Furthermore, as the ninety-seventh fascicle of the Vibhāṣā extensively clarifies the minor four clauses, medium four clauses, major four clauses, and "such" clauses, its twenty-eight pairs of two gates, five triads of gates, and so on, are all explained as in the sixty-fifth and other fascicles of the Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī. Among them, mental dharmas and mental factors are called having an objective support, conjoined, having an active aspect, and having a basis; the rest can be known.