Bharatheeyam : ( 08/11/2012. )

  ============================================================= ============================================================== Saturday, April 09, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter 2: The Structure of the Universe-4. ============================================================= Now, what is the process of inferring the existence of something prior to the manifestation of the five elements? It is the same principle of logic – philologistic deduction. We have philologistic logic: All men are mortal, Socrates was a man, and therefore Socrates was mortal. There are two kinds of philologistic deduction. One is proper and the other is improper. The proper philologistic deduction is that all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, and therefore Socrates is mortal. Quite agreeable. But an improper deduction is something like this: Queen Victoria is a woman, my mother is a woman, and therefore my mother is Queen Victoria. This is an improper deduction; it is not correct. Just because both are women, it does not