Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.21

c8.s5.21

The Naiyāyika also questions the position of the Advaitin with reference to the status of world. He says that the negation of something, which is *alīka* (false) in itself, is not possible. The world therefore cannot be regarded as the locus of absolute negation, of non-being-as-characterized by being (*sattva-viśiṣṭa sattvābhāva*).⁴² The law of contradiction is also violated — the world cannot be taken as the locus of absolute absence of *sattva* (being) and *asattva* (non-being) simultaneously.