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Syaata Syaata-nasti Syaata-nasti-avaktvaya
Syaata-vaada
Syamatva
TERMINOLOGY OF JAINISM BY DINESH VORA
Each of the nayas comprehends things from only one particular standpoint. Knowledge derived from a naya therefore is partial and incomplete. To comprehend things in all their aspects, therefore a special mode or form must be found. This according to Jainas is their syadvada or the doctrine of many possibilities.
In a way; In some respect; May be; Relatively May be or in some respect; It is not
May be in some respect; it is not and it is indescribable.
Conditional predicate principle; Doctrine of qualified assertions,
Leprosy; Blackness
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