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standpoint) with regard to an object are infinite in number so also are the cases of nayas. Nayas are also infinite in number. In this regard Husserl really embraces the Jain view of anekānta i.e. 'anantadharmātmakaṁ vastu' without any inconsistency. In addition to this, Husserl says nothing new when he asserts that full knowledge of an object as a system of infinite noemata is never possible, that each noema in its reference to other noemata gives us only an idea of the object in its totality and that the ultimate unity of perception is never a matter of experience but always remains an ideal except in the case of kevalins and not in respect of the ordinary. Knower. Therefore Husserl's conception of noesis is strictly parallel to Jaina concept of naya. Noesis has been defined as a meaning giving intention and the Jain view of naya has been defined as jñāturabhiprāya i.e. intention of the knower. Noesis gives only. a partial presentation (noema) of the object, similar is the case with naya, which is parallel with the Husserlian view.
So it is mentioned how the western philosophers' view seem to be running in parallel with the concept of anekāntic 'relativity of perspective of co-existence of opposites, relativity of meaning of word and impossibility of exhaustive expression of any object in a given moment as accepted by respective philosophers namely, French Philosopher Claude Levi Strauss (1829-1902), Phenomenologist Philosopher Husserl (18591938), Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Existentialist Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980), the Post Structuralist Philosopher Derrida (1931-2004),whose views are compared and discussed in brief. Initially it may seem that the discussion is beyond the subject matter of the research undertaken, but for anekāntic inter-cultural dialogue we need to look into the Analogous Hermeneutics i.e. the anekāntic way of interpretation which can collaborate different cultures keeping its independent identity in a single whole for a better understanding between different cultures and doesn't give privileged treatment to anyone
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