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PUBLISHER'S NOTE OPINIONS
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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION .. ABSTRACT PART 1 : ONTOLOGY (The Nature of Reality) CHAPTER I : A Preliminary Statement of an Im
portant Vedāntic and Buddhistic Objection against the Jaina View of Reality, leading to the Formulation of Five Types of
Approach to the Problem of Reality .. ~ CHAPTER II : A Study in Contrasts : A. The
Philosophy of Identity (or Being); B. The Philosophy of Difference (Becoming or Change)
.. .. .. .. CHAPTER III : The Schools of Philosophy in which
Identity Şubordinates Difference : A. The Sānkhya System; B. The Bhedābheda Systems of (i) Bhartsprapañca, (ii) Bhāskara and Yādavaprakāśa, (iii) Nimbārka, (iv)
Rāmānuja ; C. Hegelianism .. .. CHAPTER IV : The Schools of Philosophy in which
Difference Subordinates Identity : A. The Vaiseșika System; B. The Dvaita System
(of Madhva) .. .. .. ... V CHAPTER V : The Jaina Philosophy of Identity-in
Difference in which Identity is Co-ordinate with Difference
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