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it should be regarded as valid. Thus the Jaina insists that the source of the law of nonc-ontradiction should be sought not in a priori thought, but in experience of the behaviour of things. Following this mode of logic, the Jaina finds no empirical contradiction in asserting that the pen has the characteristics of both existence and non-existence, as has been explained above.
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