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excluded middle applies ·to reality and admits of no exception .. Whatever is not real is unreal ; whatever is not unreal is real. The disjunction is complete. They don't admit a non-descript tertitum quid.
The Advaitin maintains that the two-fold differences predicated by him with reference to indeterminability are not to be taken as absolutely real. There would result contradiction only when we have two really opposed negations in one and the same locus. Where the negations are not absolutely real, there is no scope for contradiction. (See Tattvapradfpika, p. 16). The Advaitin is of opinion that the universe cannot be determined in terms of the real and the unreal. So he calls it, "different from the real and the unreal." But he maintaines that it is the indeterminable nature of the universe in terms of the real and the unreal that has led him to describe them as different from either. The differences should not be taken as real. The word only is significant for the Advaitin who wants only to establish that the universe cannot be defined in terms of the real and the unreal. He does not affirm the difference from the real or the unreal predicated about the Universe. The Dvaitin urges as against this argument, " because the universe cannot be determined in terms of inderminability let him describe it as the opposite of indeterminability." The Dvaitin has stated two pervasions: (1) wherever there is the non-existence of unreality, there is reality; (2) wherever there is non-existence of reality, there is unreality. The Advaitin urges that these pervasions are not established, and as long as they are not established the Dvaitin cannot treat the Advaitin's description of the universe as contradictory. The Dvaitin holds that the prevasion can be secured in the Atman i.e., the Brahman. In the Brahman there is the absence of unreality, and the presence of reality, V (16-25). The Advaitin points out that the peumsion between reality and the non•3xistence of unreality put forth by the Dvaitin in the case of Atmaq is conditioned by the adjunct
