with their major terms;[476] and, their subjects being thus
common, the (erring) middle term will be equally too general
in regard to the Condition and the major term._[477]
cxxxix. _It is in order to prove faulty generality in a
middle term that the Condition has to be employed._
The meaning of this is that it is in consequence of the middle term
being found too general in regard to the condition, that we infer that
it is too general in regard to the major term; and hence the use of
having a condition at all. (_a._) Thus, where the condition invariably
accompanies an unlimited[478] major term, we infer that the middle
term is too general in regard to the major term, from the very fact
that it is too general in regard to the condition; as, for example, in
the instance "the mountain has smoke because it has fire," where we
infer that the "fire" is too general in regard to "smoke," since it is
too general in regard to "wet fuel;" for there is a rule that what is
too general for that which invariably accompanies must also be too
general for that which is invariably accompanied. (_b._) But where we
take some fact or mark to determine definitely the major term which
the condition is invariably to accompany,--there it is from the middle
term's being found too general in regard to the condition in cases
possessing this fact, or mark that we infer that the middle term is
equally too general in regard to the major term. Thus in the argument,
"B is dark because he is Mitrá's son," the middle term "the fact of
being Mitrá's son" is too general in regard to the _sádhya_, "dark
colour," because it is too general in regard to the _upádhi_, "feeding
on vegetables," as seen in the case of Mitrá's second son [Mitrá's
parentage being the assumed fact or mark, and Mitrá herself not having
fed on vegetables previous to his birth].
[But an objector might here interpose, "If your definition of a
condition be correct, surely a pretended condition which fulfils your
definition can always be found even in the case of a valid middle
term. For instance, in the stock argument 'the mountain must have fire
because it has smoke,' we may assume as our pretended condition 'the
being always found elsewhere than in the mountain;' since this
certainly does not always 'accompany the middle term,' inasmuch as it
is not found in the mountain itself where the smoke is acknowledged to
be; and yet it apparently does 'always accompany the major term,'
since in every other known case of fire we certainly find it, and as
for the present case you must remember that the presence of fire in
this mountain is the very point in dispute." To this we reply] You
never may take such a condition as "the being always found elsewhere
than in the subject or minor term" (unless this can be proved by some
direct sense-evidence which precludes all dispute); because, in the
first place, you cannot produce any argument to convince your
antagonist that this condition does invariably accompany the major
term [since he naturally maintains that the present case is exactly
one in point against you]; and, secondly, because it is
self-contradictory [as the same nugatory condition may be equally
employed to overthrow the contrary argument].
But if you can establish it by direct sense-evidence, then the "being
always found elsewhere than in the subject" becomes a true condition,
[and serves to render nugatory the false argument which a disputant
tries to establish]. Thus in the illusory argument "the fire must be
non-hot because it is artificial," we can have a valid condition in
"the being always found elsewhere than in fire," since we can prove by
sense-evidence that fire is hot,[479] [thus the _upádhi_ here is a
means of overthrowing the false argument].
Where the fact of its always accompanying the major term, &c., is
disputed, there we have what is called a disputed condition.[480] But
"the being found elsewhere than in the subject" can never be employed
even as a disputed condition, in accordance with the traditional rules
of logical controversy.[481]
E. B. C.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 468: The _upádhi_ is the "condition" which must be supplied
to restrict a too general middle term. If the middle term, as thus
restricted, is still found in the minor term, the argument is valid;
if not, it fails. Thus, in "The mountain has smoke because it has
fire" (which rests on the false premise that "all fire is accompanied
by smoke"), we must add "wet fuel" as the condition of "fire;" and if
the mountain _has_ wet fuel as well as fire, of course it will have
smoke. Similarly, the alleged argument that "B is dark because he is
Mitrá's son" fails, if we can establish that the dark colour of her
former offspring A depended not on his being her son, but on her
happening to have fed on vegetables instead of ghee. If we can prove
that she still keeps to her old diet, of course our amended middle
term will still prove B to be dark, but not otherwise.]
[Footnote 469: The Hindus think that a child's dark colour comes from
the mother's living on vegetables, while its fair colour comes from
her living on ghee.]
[Footnote 470: By Bháshá-parich. sl. 25, the four elements, earth,
water, air, and fire, are _sparsavat_, but by sl. 27 of these air is
neither _pratyaksha_ nor _rúpavat_.]
[Footnote 471: This condition would imply that we could only argue
from this middle term "the being produced" in cases of positive
existence, not non-existence.]
[Footnote 472: "Soul," of course, is not external; but our topic was
not _soul_, but _air_.]
[Footnote 473: As, _e.g._, the mountain and Mitrá's first son in the
two false arguments, "The mountain has smoke because it has fire"
(when the fire-possessing red-hot iron ball has no smoke), and
"Mitrá's first son A is dark because he is Mitrá's offspring" (when
her second son B is fair). These two subjects possess the respective
_sádhyas_ or major terms "smoke" and "dark colour," and therefore are
respectively the subjects where the conditions "wet fuel" and "the
mother's feeding on vegetables" are to be respectively applied.]
[Footnote 474: As, _e.g._, the red-hot ball of iron and Mitrá's second
son; as these, though possessing the respective middle terms "fire"
and "the being Mitrá's offspring" do not possess the respective
conditions "wet fuel" or "the mother's feeding on vegetables," nor,
consequently, the respective major terms (_sádhya_) "smoke" and "dark
colour."]
[Footnote 475: This will exclude the objected case of "dark jars" in
(_a_), as it falls under neither of these two alternatives; for,
though they are the sites of the _sádhya_ "dark colour," they do not
admit the condition "the feeding on vegetables," nor the middle term
"the being Mitrá's son."]
[Footnote 476: _I.e._, wherever there is fire produced by wet fuel
there is smoke. The condition and the major term are "equipollent" in
their extension.]
[Footnote 477: Where the _hetu_ is found and not the _sádhya_ (as in
the red-hot ball of iron), there the _upádhi_ also is not applicable.]
[Footnote 478: _I.e._, one which requires no determining fact or mark,
such as the three objected arguments required in § 137.]
[Footnote 479: The disputant says, "Fire must be non-hot because it is
artificial." "Well," you rejoin, "then it must only be an
artificiality which is always found elsewhere than in fire,--_i.e._,
one which will not answer your purpose in trying to prove your point."
Here the proposed _upádhi_ "the being always found elsewhere than in
fire" answers to the definition, as it does not always accompany the
_hetu_ "possessing artificiality," but it does always accompany the
_sádhya_ "non-hot," as fire is proved by sense-evidence to be hot.]
[Footnote 480: As in the argument, "The earth, &c., must have had a
maker because they have the nature of effects," where the Theist
disputes the Atheistic condition "the being produced by one possessing
a body." See Kusumáñjali, v. 2.]
[Footnote 481: In fact, it would abolish all disputation at the
outset, as each party would produce a condition which from his own
point of view would reduce his opponent to silence. In other words, a
true condition must be consistent with _either_ party's opinions.]
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