Absence / Negation

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Prior absence (prāgabhāva) is beginningless but has an end; it is the absence of an effect before its production. Absence by destruction (pradhvaṃsa) has a beginning but is endless; it is the absence of an effect after its production. Absolute absence (atyantābhāva) is that whose counter-correlate-ness is delimited by relation [to a locus] through all three times; for example, 'there is no pot on the ground.' Mutual absence (anyonyābhāva) is that whose counter-correlate-ness is delimited by the relation of identity; for example, 'a pot is not a cloth.'