Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Sue Hamilton

Author:Sue Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2001-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

There are 24 qualities, and 5 kinds of action, that inhere in substances. Each individual occurrence of a substance is a particular example of a universality. Absence allows for various kinds of negation, non-presence, or non-existence to be understood as part of reality.

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Though unperceivable, the principal quality of ether is that it is the medium through which sounds, for example, travel and reach the senses. As such it is a substance in its own right.

All substances occur in atomic form, each atom being eternal and indestructible. It is in joining together in varying proportions that these atoms produce all the various objects of the universe, which are in turn finite and reducible to their constituent atoms. Unlike earth, water, fire, and air, which constitute material substance, the atoms of ether, space, time, self, and mind are immaterial. Of these five immaterial substances, mind is particular to each individual self and is itself of atomic size, whereas the remaining four, as well as being eternal, are omnipresent substances.

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