Sarvadarshanasangraha 16.114

16.114

[Reply:] it is not so; because two cognitions, named apprehension and memory, of the form "this [is] silver", are accepted as the cause of practical activity. If [it be objected] that in this way, even from "this is a piece of mother-of-pearl, that is silver", qualified practical activity would result, that is not so. For in this case, the apprehension of merely the object present before oneself as "this" is a cognition of mere generality, not distinguished by mother-of-pearl-ness and the like because it is produced by an eye impaired by defects; whereas the cognition "silver", having an unproximate object, is not produced by sensory contact, inferential sign, and so forth, but arises solely from a latent impression awakened by similarity, and, being reduced by elimination to the state of memory, has the apprehended element of "that-ness" stolen away due to defect, thus being established as a mere apprehension. That too has been stated: