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The Valsesikas maintain that sound is eternal (as a fact the 

 Vaisesikas do not so maintain), 



5. Tiiesis inconsistent with one's own statement, ^C ^ 



My mother is barren, 



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6. Thesis with the subject unpopular or nofc well known, 



e.g, 

 The Buddhist against the Sarbkhya : 



Sound is perishable. 



7. Thesis with the predicate unpopular or not well known, 



The Samkliya against the Buddhist : 

 Self is possessed of a soul. 



8. Thesis with both tlie subject and predicate unpopular 



or not well known, ^^^"n]'-=;q'Y^]=T]^-q'?I'ysT5j':;i^ e.g. 



The Yaiseslka ao^ainsfc the Buddhist: 



The soul is possessed of pleasure and other feelings. 



9. Thesis universally known, ^^^'^^'^^f^'^^ e.g. 



Fire is warm. 



Owing to the violatioti of one or more of the three charac- 

 teristics of the reason already mentioned, there occur fallacies of 

 the reason. 



Fallacies of the Fallacies of the z^eason, mark or 



^_ 1 middle term are principally of three 



c^ kinds, each of which is af^ain subdivided 



(a) The unproved ( ^if^^S, ^'^^ ) are the fallacies which 



occur 



(I) Whea tlie lack of [trafch in the reason Is recognised by 



both ti.e parties, cnf^'Tl'ftJ'^q'g^'CI, e.g 





Sound is non-eteinal, 

 Because it is vidhle (reason). 



Here neitlier paitj admits that sound is visible. 



