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Jaina's View of Reality
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Truth Table No. 2
A B AAB
B
AVB
TT
F
1
The seventh or the last predication consists of an affirmative and negative statements made non-simultaneously conjoined simultaneously with the affirmative and the negative statement conjoined simultaneously. This statement is denoted by (P • P) A (PAP). Referring to the columns for the connectives for simultaneous conjunction and for nonsimultaneous conjunction in the truth-table No. 2 and nothing that P takes the truth-value T by the first predication and P takes the truth value I by the second predication. We see that (
P P) takes the true-value T (third predication) and ( PAP) takes the truth-value I (fourth predication). The seventh predication thus takes the truth-value I according to the same truth-tables.
Hence, we see that the pramana saptabhangi of the Jainas is a table of seven statements which are derived from a true statement by the operations of negation, non-simultaneous and simultaneous conjunctions that are denoted by 1, •, A, respectively.
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