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Jaina View of Life
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of Anekantavada (Anekantavada Nirása ), Jitari says that one cannot have identity as well as difference by the same nature.
Sankara and Ramanuja also point out to the violation of the law of contradiction.
However, all these thinkers forget that the laws of thoughts should be considered by the testimony of experience and not be pre-conception. Experience shows that a thing is real in own respect but not so in other respect.
The triple character theory is supported through anvasthanupapannatva hetu. From the realistic standpoint there is so such difference which could indicate the seperation between identity and difference. The reality is synthism of identity-in difference and each synthesis is a Játyantara (Sui generis ). Akalanka points out that the Buddhists philosophers ignore the formula Sarvobhavastudats svabhati and tries to establish equality between curd and camel.
Infact, Syadvada is against the formulations of formal twovalued logic. It avoids vicious intellectualism and the fallacy of exclusive particularity. Thus Syadváda is a new dynamics of thinking which is based on catholicism and regard for truth seen from different angles.
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