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aspects and relationship which have given birth to the idea or event we are called upon to judge., and (2) our own subjectiveness of approach as each of us is conditioned differently by our education, environment and culture.
The first of these two factors relates to the object or idea to be judged while the second relates to the judge himself. Now with these two limitations when we arrive at a conclusion, that conclusion is only relatively true - relativity being traced to the above two factors. Therefore if someone else comes to a different conslusion with regard to the same object or idea, one should not feel disturbed if he follows the theory of Syadvad because he knows that the other person might have drawn his conclusion from different set of circumstances. This type of approach covers the whole gamut of life events and if followed scrupulously, it would surely make the whole society and us happy.
The plain and simple meaning of this theory of Syadvad is its recognition of the relativity
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