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( 3 ) Fallacy of Anavastha — Statement after statement is made without observing any established rule regarding the finality of things.
Reply : Things having innumerable characteristics need innumerable predication, hence no fallacy of infinite regress,
( 4 ) Fallacy of Confusion ( 47 ) – Many confusing things are said of the same object.
Reply : What we say of it are actual.
(5) Fallacy of Vaitikar (Intermingling of Qualities) - We maintain both existent and non-existent in regard to a thing.
Reply : Existence is predicated from material standpoint, non-existence from phenomenal standpoint.
( 6 ) Fallacy of Doubt - Cannot arise because we are definite from particular standpoint.
Where there is doubt, lack of understanding ( Arthāpatti ) cannot arise, hence no negationism ( Abhāva ) and no fraudism (chala ), which also go contrary to its extreme realism.
Vyāsa and Sankarácārya have also brought in their heavy artilleries to damage one or the other angles of this fortification and force an entrance into the same. Their charges are of contradictionism?, indeterminisma, doubts, uncertaintyt, ridiculous. Self-contradiction, abandoning original position in describing the Avyaktaṁo which are all treated above and elsewhere? in this paper.
1. "#fff AEHAT”, 229-17THTOU, P-64-33.1 2. Knowledge would be of indeterminate character as doubt
or diffidence. 3. The knowledge, the knowabilities, the knowing subject of
all being indeterminate in themselves, Syadvāda cannot
be a source of valid knowledge. 4. Heaven and freedom both are uncertain. 5. Ridiculous Self-contradiction. 6. Epitome of Jainism, Ch. IX; Sankara and Syadvada. 7. Sir Ashutosh Com. Vol. III, Art on Jainism.
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