Now, these things are conditioned by contact. Namely, when those ascetics and brahmins assert that the self and the cosmos are eternal on four grounds …

partially eternal on four grounds …

finite or infinite on four grounds …

or they resort to equivocation on four grounds …

or they assert that the self and the cosmos arose by chance on two grounds …

they theorize about the past on these eighteen grounds …

or they assert that the self lives on after death in a percipient form on sixteen grounds …

or that the self lives on after death in a non-percipient form on eight grounds …

or that the self lives on after death in a neither percipient nor non-percipient form on eight grounds …

or they assert the annihilation of an existing being on seven grounds …

or they assert the ultimate extinguishment of an existing being in the present life on five grounds …

they theorize about the future on these forty-four grounds …

When those ascetics and brahmins theorize about the past and the future on these sixty-two grounds, that too is conditioned by contact.