Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c26.s2.16.4

c26.s2.16.4

it is an immediate feltness, which results in our perception that the object is blue, and the sensation therefore can properly be called one of blue ex posteriori. It is not really because we have an awareness of blue that we speak of having perceived a blue object; it is because we have a perception of blue that we describe our ineffable sensation as an awareness of blue. This is seen by the avoidance of the term cause and result for the relation and the preference for determinant and determined (vyavasthāpana, vyavasthāpya).² The momentary sensation is absolutely real (paramārthasat),³ and is grasped in sensation alone; inference cannot reach the moment; it deals only with generalities (sāmānya-lakṣaṇa).