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CHAPTER VIII.
THE DOCTRINE OF SYADVAD.
Defects of the Realistic Method of Inquiry--Saptabhangi supersedes the Realistic, -It is a better Organon of Knowledge-It leads to the higher Knowledge-Anekantavad and Idealism-True Glimpse of Concrete Reality-Unity and Multiplicity-Correlativity as Essential to Unity-Dialectical Vision of things as Expression of a Unity.
Preliminary.-A little reflection on what has been discussed in the foregoing sections of Naya will make it pretty clear that our ordinary thinking consists, for the most part, of generalised images or conceptions derived from the phenomenal world and so charged more or less with the inherent characteristics of their sensuous origin. Now if we carefully analyse this form of thought, it will be seen that it labours under three serious defects. First, we cannot get rid of the material or sensuous origin which consequently tend to betray the mind into illusion and error; secondly, it must fail to give the real or organic connection, to be explained hereafter, and unity to objects which it deals
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