因明入正理論疏 1.128

1.128

問：「第八句因若正因攝，有比量相違。第八句非正因攝，同品俱故，如第七、九。」答：「此有決定相違。量云：第八句因正因所攝，九句因中具三相故，如第二句。不言九句，但言具三相，恐有不定過。為如第二句具三相故，此第八句正因所攝；為如決定相違等具三相故，此第八句非正因攝。故言九句中，便無此過。或決定相違，不具三相，他智不決定故。」

Question: 'If the reason of the eighth statement is subsumed under valid reasons, there is a contradiction by inference (anumāna-bādha): the eighth statement is not subsumed under valid reasons, because of having both [presence and absence] in the sapakṣa, like the seventh and ninth.' Answer: 'This [objection] suffers from a counterbalanced contradiction (satpratipakṣa / virodhadhimanta). The inference runs: The reason of the eighth statement is subsumed under valid reasons, because of possessing the three characteristics among the nine statements' reasons, like the second statement. If one does not say "among the nine statements" and merely says "possessing the three characteristics", one fears the fault of inconclusiveness: Is it like the second statement possessing the three characteristics, so that this eighth statement is subsumed under valid reasons? Or is it like a counterbalanced contradiction possessing the three characteristics, so that this eighth statement is not subsumed under valid reasons? Therefore, by saying "among the nine statements", it is free from this fault. Alternatively, a counterbalanced contradiction does not possess the three characteristics, because another's cognition is not definitively determined.'