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which determines the context-based use of words. The theory of niksepa in Jainism is understood as a theory of word- meaning in terms of the present language philosophy. A word contains opposing non-synonymous meanings, where one is in the focus and the other one is in the margin, depending upon the context.
The Post-structuralist Jacque Derrida's view (19312004) seems to be parallel with the Jain concept of anekānta. He actually deals with the philosophy of language and Deconstruction. The conceptual argument for deconstruction depends on the relativitywhich I mean the view that truth itself is always to the different standpoints..... In Western world of philosophy, Derrida's Critique focuses on privileging the spoken word over the written word. The spoken word is given a higher value because the speaker and the listener are both present during the utterance simultaneously.Derrida attacked this theory of presence and origins by attacking the notion that speech has priority over Writing. There is no temporal or spatial distance between speaker, speech and listener. This immediacy seems to guarantee the notion that in the spoken word, we know what we mean ,we mean what we say, say what we mean, and know what we have said. Whether or not perfect understanding always occur in fact, this image of perfectly self-present meaning is, according to Derrida, the underlying ideal of Western culture.... of Logo-centricism... which considers writing to be only a representation of speech. In the course of his critique, Derrida simply reverses this value system and says that ‘Writing is prior to speech.'When Derrida attacked on the priority of speech over writing he was attacking on which is very much parallel to the Jaina view of non-absolutism. the
Christropher Butler. Post Modernism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford:
Oxford University Press (Indian Edn.), 2002, p. 16. ? Derek Johnson. A Brief History of Philosophy: From Socrates to Derridă, p. 189. 3 Jacques Derrida. Dissemination. Trans. With an Introduction and Additional Notes by Barbara Johnson. London: Continuum, 2005, Intro-ix.
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