Sarvadarshanasangraha 10.45

10.45

Nor is it correct to say that it cannot be an absence because it is known through an affirmative cognition, for there are counter-instances in the cases of cosmic dissolution, destruction, cessation, and so forth. Nor is the superimposition of a positive property upon an absence difficult to establish, since the superimposition of pleasure upon the absence of pain and the notion of disjunction in the absence of conjunction are observed.