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Multifaceted symbiotic philosophy of ..... : 57 judgmental and linguistic expression of it has also to contain the relations and the conditions which characterize such knowledge. This is the theory of Syādvāda which means that every judgment is based on four types of apekṣās (perspectives) of dravya (substance), kşetra (place), kāla (time) and bhāva (nature). This theory is further formalized in the form of Sapta-bhangi, a doctrine of seven-fold predication. It implies that the knowledge of real can be described in sevėn ways. These are combination of affirmation and negation: (1) Syāt asti (predication of existence), (2) Syāt nāsti (predication of non-existence), (3) Syāt asti-nāsti ca (successive predication of existence and non-existence), (4) Syāt avaktavyam (simultaneous predication of existence and non-predication and therefore indescribable), (5) Syāt asti ca avaktavyam (predication of existence and of indescribability or indescribability as qualified by existence (Dr. D.S.Kothari's usage), (6) Syāt nāsti ca avaktavyam (predication of non-existence and indescribability) and (7) Syāt asti-năsti avaktavyam ca (predication of existence, non-existence and indescribability). Dr D. S. Kothari states that Syādvāda asserts that knowledge of reality is possible only by denying the absolutistic attitude. Syādvāda asserts that a thing is “A”, and it is also "not-A”, and both “A and not-A”, and so on. It is an exhortation to investigate reality from all different possible viewpoints. It is not a doctrine of indifference or passive acceptance of statements and also their negatives. It is just the contrary. It demands our ascertaining the conditions, the coordinate frames as it were, under which a thing is “A”, the different conditions under which it is not-A, conditions under which it can be both “A” and “not-A”, and so on. He further opines that the superimposition principle of quantum mechanics provides an illuminating example of Syādvāda mode of description. Here it should be clarified that Syādvāda is not at all a system of logic-two-valued or multi-valued or fuzzy—in the western sense as it is generally misunderstood and evaluated. It is a theory of
| SR No. | 525079 |
| Book Title | Sramana 2012 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sudarshanlal Jain |
| Publisher | Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi |
| Publication Year | 2012 |
| Total Pages | 98 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sramana, & India |
| File Size | 12 MB |