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Jainism
highly immaterialised material substratum
of the universe. All truth is here embraced by the one, beyond which nothing is. This doctrine, to be classed under the Bhavaikant school according to Jain terminology, received its highest form in the Eleatic philosophy of Ionia. The Bhavaikant doctrine holds that being [existence ] is the only property of all things. Being alone is; all else is not.
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Anekant Logic has therefore to combat this monism (Ekant Vad) first. Monism is according to Anekant, self-destructive. It ignores one side of the antinomy. It is therefore called स्वपरवैरि or enimical to self and non-self. Bhavaikant makes mind and matter identical. It renders knowledge impossible by wiping out the difference between subject and its object. The Sankhyas who hold the same view make their पुरुष, the permanent being, alone
existent. But how can the school that makes
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