Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c12.76

c12.76

The replies to each of these questions is of the form 'mā h'evam', i.e. do not say so (A. II.161). The response to the other avyākata-questions is also similar since these questions are 'not answered but set aside' (avyākatāni thapitāni, M I 426, *v. supra*, 481) In other words these questions were *not negated but rejected*. Raju (*v. supra*, 566) and Bahm (*v. supra*, 567) have therefore misdescribed their nature as far as the Pāli Canonical position is concerned by calling this doctrine that of 'four-cornered negation' when it ought properly to be called 'four-cornered rejection'.