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A science that carries so much importance must be necessarily misunderstood and miss construed. From its very nature, it is open to misconception. It is a very complicated theory and as such, minds of limited capacity can but grasp only this aspect or that of this many-sided system. It strikes, moreover, by its paradoxes which appear from level-grounded standpoints as consisting of diametrically opposed elements. Their connection can only be brought into a comprehensive view by one who takes his stand npon a higher platform. The untrained eye fixes itself only on one point at a time and hence the difficulty in understanding what is but clear as daylight to one who possesses the philosophic insight of Anekant Logic. The beginnings of philosophy are therefore always monistic. So much so, that the very idea of philosophy is. at first considered to consist in ascertaining the one under the many or earlier still, as in the physical philosophers of Greece, the
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