counterpositive

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Namaste Sastri-ji,Thanks for going over that again. Very useful. It all arises out

of the great puzzle: how do you refer to non-existents?

 

"Vacaspati puzzled over this problem because, according to the

Nyaya theory, each negation, in order to be meaningful, must

negate a real entity and must denote an absence which usually

behaves as a property occurring in some locus. Thus, an absence is

always determined by its counterpositive (i.e., the negatum) on

the one hand and by the locus (adhara) on the other.21(from a paper by B.K.Matilal 'Gangesa on the concept of universal

property)

 

Best Wishes,Michael