308 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
panying the middle term”’ is the state of being the counter- 
part of that absolute non-existence which abides in the locus 
of the middle term, that is, the state of being absent from the 
locus of the middle term. In diagram VI “wet is 
Mitra has many sons of whom one is black, and the rest fair- 
complexioned. The son conceived at a time when Mitra ate 
vegetables, is black, but other sons that were conceived while 
she did not eat vegetables but drank milk, are fair-complexioned. 
In diagram VII we find that “ eating vegetables”’ is a condi- 
tion which accompanies Mitra’s black son, but does not accom- 
pany her fair-complexioned sons. 
blackness which abides in a pot. A condition is, according to 
him, to be clearly defined as follows :— ‘ ‘oa tl 
condition is that which constantly accompanies - 
major term, but does not always accompany the middle term 
sie P ‘ ° 4 ; d (2) sus cted. 
Condition 1s of two kinds, viz. ( 1) sure, an (2 ie oiahan 
term or as to its not accompanying the middle term. An 
condition is given below :— 
The earth has a maker, 
because it is a product (caused by a body). ie 1 
Here “caused by a body” is a condition which oa 
accompanies a maker (if the maker is a person, but no 
: db 
pany a product (for instance, a product like a pot is caused by 
The 
a body, but a product like a lightning is not so caused). . a 
condition, wiz, « causing by a body” is therefore a suspee 
to 
A condition is not in itself a defect, but its attache 
the middle term indicates that that term is erratic 4 | 
conclusion drawn therefrom wrong. 
Qualat | 
The State of Being the Locus or Minor Term. 
ti) 
The state of being the locus or the minor term Ph “bi 
has been defined by some logicians as the state in W. : 
