Property of the position

དེ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་ཤེས་འདོད་ཆོས་ཅན་སྐྱོན་མེད་ཀྱི་སྟེང་དུ་འགོད་ཚུལ་དང་མཐུན་པར་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དུ་ཚད་མས་ངེས་པ། དེ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད།
Definition of the property of the position in the proof of that:
That ascertained by valid cognition as categorically existing, in accordance with the mode of statement, on the basis of the faultless subject in the proof of that.

Illustration: product.

This definition is not definitive, because "sound" is also that.

སྒྲ་དེ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་རྟགས་ཀྱི་སྒྲ་མི་རྟག་པར་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཤེས་འདོད་ཆོས་ཅན་སྐྱོན་མེད་ཀྱང་ཡིན། ཁྱོད་སྒྲ་དང་ཕན་ཚུན་ཐ་དད་པའི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་སྒྲའི་སྟེང་དུ་འགོད་ཚུལ་དང་མཐུན་པར་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་དུ་ཚད་མས་ངེས་པ། ཁྱོད་སྒྲ་མི་རྟག་པར་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་ཡིན་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད།
Definition of x being the property of the position in the proof that sound is impermanent:

1. Sound is the faultless subject in the proof that sound is impermanent using the sign "x"; and
2. x is ascertained by valid cognition as categorically existing, in accordance with the mode of statement, on the basis of sound by way of being mutually different from sound.

For x = product, those two reasons follow: དེར་ཐལ།

1. Because sound fulfils the definition of being that subject.
   1. Because the syllogism "Taking the subject - sound - it is impermanent because it is a product." exists;
   2. Because persons who have ascertained by valid cognition that sound is a product but have not ascertained with valid cognition that sound is impermanent exist.
2. Because:
   1. Product and sound are mutually different;
   2. Product is ascertained by valid cognition as categorically existing, in accordance with the mode of statement, on the basis of sound; because:
      1. The mode of statement in the proof of that using the sign "product" is an "is" statement;
      2. Sound is a product; and
      3. Product is on the basis of the subject, sound.

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