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this Logic is as important as the Absolute Wisdom possessed by the Kevalin. It differs from the latter only in being indirect as distinguished from immediate' which is the characteristic of Absolute Wisdom. This loss caused by its being mediate' [ 37TRP or T ] is fully made up by its exclusive capacity to demonstrate the truth of Absolute Wisdom to mankind. Thus Absolute Wisdom itself, not to speak of inferior degrees of knowledge, is baseless without the Anekant Logic. Obviously, the reason of this is that this Logic it is that guarantees our capacity to know and provides us with criteria by which we should be able to test our knowledge. In one word it may be called the method of philosophy or that instrument of thought by which Tatva Dnyan or philosophy is polished ( Sanskritam) It bears therefore the all-comprehending sense that.. Logrc' is invested with in Hegel. It is in Jainism what the Science of Ideas is in Plato or the Metaphysic is in Aristotle.
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