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The three modes (Skt. trairūpya; Tib. ཚུལ་གསུམ་; Wyl. tshul gsum) of a logical argument are as follows:

the reason must be a feature of the subject (pakṣadharma; ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་, phyogs chos)
there must be positive logical pervasion (or positive concomitance or entailment) (anvayavyāpti; རྗེས་ཁྱབ་, rjes khyab)
there must be negative logical pervasion (or negative concomitance) (vyatirekavyāpti; ལྡོག་ཁྱབ་, ldog khyab)

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	The '''three modes''' (Tib. [[ཚུལ་གསུམ་]]; [[Wyl.]] ''tshul gsum'') of a logical argument are as follows:		The '''three modes''' (Skt. ''trairūpya''; Tib. [[ཚུལ་གསུམ་]]; [[Wyl.]] ''tshul gsum'') of a logical argument are as follows:

	#the reason must be a feature of the subject (''pakṣadharma''; [[ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་]], ''phyogs chos'')		#the reason must be a feature of the subject (''pakṣadharma''; [[ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་]], ''phyogs chos'')