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1. Maybe the pot exists.
2. Maybe the pot does not exist.
3. Maybe the pot exists and does not exist.
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Maybe the pot is indescribable.
5. Maybe the pot exists and is indescribable.
6. Maybe the pot does not exist and is indescribable.
7. Maybe the pot exists, does not exist and is indescribable.
Before proceeding to explain the sense of each of the above propositions, it would be well to explain some of the words or expressions used in them, which have a peculiar significance from the point of view of the Jain dialectics.
I. 'MAYBE.'
The expression 'Maybe in these propositions indicates a view of pluralism concerning things, and this renders them broad enough to admit of a larger consideration than that which its absence would mean.
