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8.2 L 'added a seventh category

This list of basic padārtha will be forever at the center of heated discussions. One of these is the admission of a seventh padārtha called abhāva, or absence. The problem behind this admission is the possibility logic to explain the absence of negation only in terms of a presence. According to the Buddhist schools and Prābhākara Mimamsa, this is possible, according to instead Naiyāyika, Bhatta Mīmāṃsaka Vaisesika and later, the absence is more than can be explained only in terms of a non-presence. On the epistemological level, the typical example is the absence of a vase from the floor. A man walks into a house and immediately notice the absence of a vase from the floor. You can say that in reality he has just seen the surface of the floor? Yes and no, because the floor itself might suggest the absence of an infinity of other objects, while the person in question has immediately taken the absence of just a pot (which probably had been in the place of the floor until the day before).