Buddhist Logic v2.c19.s3.2

v2.c19.s3.2

(12. 16). There is a theory (of the Buddhists according to which Perception is Sensation, and Inference is nothing but Conception, they represent two originally independent sources of our knowledge), each apprehends a special, originally independent² (element) in the cognized object. When a reference to them is made in the plural (and not in the dual), their subdivisions are meant. (12. 17). Sense-perception, being produced by a stimulus coming from an object, is intent upon that object, (because it is produced³ by it. But moreover) only that thing is an object of perception whose presence invariably calls forth its image.⁴ (12. 18). A Universal cannot produce the same (results, it neither can exercise a stimulus, nor can it call forth an image of the