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cognition and the cognition cannot be identical. Such a position is contradictory. The content of the cognition cannot be any other entity. (For Advaitins refutation of Dvaita criticism, See Advaita siddhi, p. -13.) XXI (201-210). The Dvaitin criticises the third and the last probans of the Advaitin, namely, "finitude". The term" finitude', is analysed to mean three things: (1) spatial finitude, (2) temporal finitude, (3) difference. If it is the first, there is the defect of partial non-establishment of the probans in respect of the subject. Time and Akiis'a form a part of the subject though they are divisible into parts. The Ams'ikala is not particularised. It does not admit of divisions. So also the non-elemental Akiis1a. In Time and in Akas1a there is the absence of the probans" spatial finitude". Hence the defect. If the probans means " temporal finitude ", even then there is the same defect, because the probans is not preseet in Akas'a and in Time. The Advaitin may contend that everything other than Brahman has spatial and temporal finitude and that there is in this way the establishment of the probans in Time and Akas'a; hence the absence of the contradiction. The Dvaitin urges that the contradiction is not removed. The term spatial finitude means " being the counter-correlate of absolute non-existence located in some place." ·when the Advaitin declares that everything has spatial finitude, in order to make intelligible the spatial finitude there must be the counter-correlate. Such a counter-correlate forms a part of the subject. Hence spatial finitude cannot be established. If another counter-correlate outside the world be admitted, there is the defect of partial non-establishment of the probans in respect of that counter-correlate. Hence the defect of contradiction. The Advaitin then contends that the Brahman is the counter-correlate, because •evfM"Ything is super-imposed on it. These objects are denied ihere. With Brahman as the counter-correlate finitude can be attributed to Kala and 4-kas'a. Hence there is no c&ntradiction. •
