Jaina Theories of Reality and Knowledge

SR No.: 001608
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Y J Padmarajiah
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal
Publication Year: 1963
Total Pages: 444
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Epistemology, & Anekantvad
File Size: 23 MB

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JAINA THEORIES OF REALITY AND KNOWLEDGE
single concepts can be compensated for by the addition of further concepts, or by some conceptual system in which the presence and interrelation of many concepts is specially provided for. In this case the remedy for the shortcomings of concepts would be more concepts. ....".
Syädvāda gives, in its own way, such a "conceptual system in which the presence and interrelation of many concepts is specially provided for”. Or, rather, the concepts”, or to put the matter in terms of syädvāda, "the modes of truth" are "not merely many truths, but alternative truths" under the "conceptual system” of syādvāda.