Jain Journal 1990 01

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JANUARY, 1990
in the world process is an instance of a subtle structure in which determinism and indeterminism are very exquisitely put together. To perceive an aspect of it and to hold it to be the total reality is to resort to an absolute view. Our partial knowledge accepts the dominance of one aspect over another; but when it goes to negate the other aspect completely; it suffers from the fallacy of exclusive predication. Reality is not identified totally either with determinedness or undeterminedness but is something which implies both determinism and undeterminism. Such a view does not only solve an ethical difficulty but also gives us a satisfactory explanation of the causality inherent in the world process.
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