Facets of Jain Philosophy Religion and Culture

Author(s): Shreechand Rampuriya, Ashwini Kumar, T M Dak, Anil Dutt Mishra
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Syadvāda Theory of Jainism in Terms of a Deviant Logic 341
to the spatial location of X. The time of existence of X is the present time at which it exists. The mode of X describes its configuration.
Let us represent, the first affirmative predication by a proposition P which takes a truth-value T.
The second predication consists of a negative statement that 'in some respect' an object X is non-existent. Here the word 'may be' (syād) or 'in some respects' is crucial in respect of assigning the truth-value to this predication. To elucidate that the object X may not exist with reference to either space, time, substance or mode we note that on account of restraint 'in some respects' we shall consider the connective of negation (b) as a complete negation and not as a
dimetrical' negation in the sense of Reichenbach. Let us represent the second predication by the proposition which takes the truth-value I, as shown by the following truth-table :
(Reichenbach 4 loc. cit.)
Truth-Table No. 1
The third predication consists of affirmative and negative statements conjunctively made one after another. Since the affirmative proposition P and negative proposition P are taken conjunctively one after another we assign the truth-value T to the non-simultaneous conjunction of the affirmative proposition P and the negative proposition P. We denote this non-simultaneous conjunction of P and P by the notation (Po P).
The fourth predication consists of affirmative and negative statements made simultaneously. Since an object X is incapable of being expressed in terms of existence and non-existence at the same time, even allowing Syad, it is termed 'indescribable'. Hence we assign to the fourth predication which is the simultaneous conjunction of the affirmative proposition P and the negative proposition | P, the indeterminate truth-value I and denote the statement corresponding to
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R. Sinari : "A pragmatic Critique of Jaina Relativism”, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan. 1969.