Confluence of Opposites

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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Inference,
Classification (iii) Analysis .
Logic
and
(iv) Nayaváda (appreciation or system of stand
points). Of these inference is the method of accurate deduction; classification, of accurate determination of general attributes; analysis, of accurate knowledge of ingredients and component parts of ideas and things, and nayavdda, of accurate appreciation of truth with reference to diverse standpoints. We shall deal with each of these subjects here, and shall also point out how logic can be easily mastered in less than three quarters of an hour by a school boy of ordinary intelligence. The first thing to understand is that in order to become an expert logician it is not at all necessary that the mind should be burdened with complex definitions and purplexing formulas to be found in modern text books on logic. Real logic is a very simple thing and requires no technical terminology to be learnt by rote. This is evident from the fact that many illiterate men are highly rational and logical; and even little children at times display a remarkable talent for accurate dednction. This should be impossible if logic depended upon the study of a highly complex and complicated system of technicalities, definitions and terminologies. The fact is that logic is simply the science of deduction with the aid of an invariable unalterable rule. If I ask you to tell me what day it will be tomorrow, you will immediately say, Tuesday, today being a Mon