[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c8.s5.21 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.21 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.21 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.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. - [Previous: c8.s5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.20) - [Next: c8.s5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.22) - [Up: c8.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.21) · Pramāṇa