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relation that exists between them is not union but inherence. 
When two things can be separated from each other the relation . 
between them is union, but when they cannot be mutually 
separated their relation is inherence. In fact colour is not 
united with flower but inheres in it. 
BAATIAAIGIATWATS: | 
The Invalidity of Non-perception. 
perception to be a means of knowledge. Non-existence, 
according to him, is perceived by our senses through the inter- 
course of particularity. For instance, in the perception of non- 
existence of a pot on a ground, there is a union of our eye 
ses of the non-existence of the pot. The sense employe 
nose, a savour and its non-existence bv the tongue, warmth and 
its non-existence by the tactual surface, and pleasure and is 
non-existence by the mind 
STHTIqTe: | 
Non-existence (or negation). 
Some say that there is no separate entity called non-exist- 
ence (abhava), that perception of what is ordinarily call 
non-existence of a thing”’ depends upon the locus (adhikarana) 
of non-existence of the thing, and that the intercourse through 
which we perceive the thing, must be the same as that through 
which we perceive its non-existence, viz. union, etc. | 
stance, _Our perception of non-existence of a pot of the form 
there 1S no pot on the ground” does not presuppose @ separ 
entity called non-existence, rests entirely on the ground whit 
is the locus of non-existence of the pot, and is carried on through 
the intercourse of union. . 
