Vulgar words in A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 (Page 1)
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Thus there may have been an ass sitting, in a hundred cases where I had seen smoke, and there might have been a hundred cases where there was neither ass nor smoke, but it cannot be asserted from it that there is any relation of concomitance, __ [Footnote 1: See _Antarvyâptisamarthana,_ by Ratnâkaras'ânti in the _Six Buddhist Nyâya Tracts, Bibliotheca Indica_, 1910.]
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It may be that one might never have observed smoke without an antecedent ass, or an ass without the smoke following it, but even that is not enough.
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Thus if I say this ass is a horse because it has horns it is fallacious, for neither the horse nor the ass has horns.
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A certain mantra "I take up the rein" (_imâm ag@rbhnâ@m ras'anâ@m_) which could be used in a number of cases should not however be used at the time of holding the reins of an ass.
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If it means invariable antecedence, then even an ass which is invariably present as an antecedent to the smoke rising from the washerman's house, must be regarded as the cause of the smoke [Footnote ref 1].