Jain Gazette 1920 06

SR No.: 542650
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagnanderlal Jaini, Ajit Prasada, C S Mallinath Jain
Publisher: Jaina Gazette Office
Publication Year: 1920
Total Pages: 36
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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followed by a Monday and never by any other day. The remaining two boys will also be found to understand the principle underlying the inference, but might not be able to give it expression in definite language. Now put the following additional questions to those boys and note down their answers as before :
(1) I have a watch in my pocket: can you tell me whether it is made of gold or not?
(2) If you cannot say whether it is made of gold or not, is it not because there is no fixed rule to guide you in the matter ?
The replies to these two sets of questions yield the guiding principle in Logic, namely, that an inference can be drawn only when a given fact always occurs in relation to a certain other fact or facts, so that given the one of them the other or others must also be there. This is termed Vyapti or Logical relation, and constitutes the Alpha and Omega of Logic and practically exhausts the subject, leaving only the different kinds of Vyapti to be ascertained and their bearing on affirmative and negative premises and conclusions to be determined. There are six or seven kinds of Vyaptis in all and their variations only number 22 so that if one kind of Vyápti is taken up and dwelt upon every day, the whole subject can be finished in less than one month with ease and without resort to cramming. At the end of this period the child, if properly taught, should be able not only to draw a Logical inference, but, also, to understand and to some extent even to criticise any technical definitions which he may be called upon to commit to memory. Such is the scheme of instruction which I would like to see prevailing in all educational institutions of the fnture,
I must now turn to those who have completed their studies in this school and are going to leave us. Some of them will, in doubt, pursue their studies elsewhere, but the rest go out into the world to learn their lesson of life direct from nature, and it is with them that I am principally concerned at present, though my observations apply equally to all students and others who are entering or are about to enter the world characterised by a deadly struggle for existence where none but the fittest may survive, as modern Science with characteristic callousness proclaims. This world of ours, as you will soon learn for yourselves and let me