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essence of the Jaina outlook, which helps to remove this intellectual cobwebs arising out of ekanta. The Syādvāda of Jaina's affirms that a thing is never destroyed and that which is not, never comes in to being.
Thus the theory and methodology of Syādvāda needs to be studied in all its implications in the scientific and metaphysical concepts. It needs to be analysed in the methodological schemata by further extensive research not only with reference to the ancient texts but more specially with reference to modern advanced concepts in Logic, Metaphysics and Empirical Science. So it can be said that Syādvāda is as much a theory of logic as a methodology of investigation.
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