Correct sign

ཚུལ་གསུམ་ཡིན་པ། རྟགས་ཡང་དག་གི་མཚན་ཉིད།
Definition: That which is the three modes.

See: Three Modes
See also: Correct sign illustrations

Divisions by way of nature:

1. Correct effect sign འབྲས་རྟགས་ཡང་དག
2. Correct nature sign རང་བཞིན་གྱི་རྟགས་ཡང་དག
3. Correct non-observation sign མ་དམིགས་པའི་རྟགས་ཡང་དག

Although mutually exclusive wrt to a single basis, wrt different bases the sign - product - can be the:

1. Correct effect sign in the proof that sprout arises from its causes
2. Correct nature sign in the proof that sprout is impermanent
3. Correct non-observation sign in the proof that sprout lacks a self of persons

Divisions by way of predicate:

1. Correct positive sign སྒྲུབ་རྟགས་ཡང་དག
   pervasively includes correct signs of result and nature
2. Correct negation sign དགག་རྟགས་ཡང་དག
   mutually inclusive with correct non-observation sign

Those two in the proof of that are mutually exclusive; but "product" is both the:

1. Correct positive sign in the proof that sound is impermanent; and
2. Correct negation sign in the proof that sound is not permanent.

Division by way of mode of proof / Correct signs proving the meaning and convention

Division by way of thesis

Division by way of the opponent

Signs of non-dependence ལྟོས་མེད་ཀྱི་རྟགས།

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