Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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SYADTTAD & THEORY OF RELATIVITY
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winter, not black and not having a particular name.. In this way, the existence and non-existence of the pot are related to space, time, etc.
Like Syadwad the Theory of Relativity is also full of such illustrations which are supported by the logic of Nayas and the doctrine of seven predictions. Thus Prof. Eddington, explaining the relative position of space : writes :1 "A more familiar example: of a relative quantity is direction' of an object There is a direction of Cambridge relative to Edinburgh and another direction relative to London, and so on It never occurs to us to think of this as discrepancy or to suppose that there must be some drection of Cambridge (at present undiscoverables which is absolute" In the same book, he further explains the difference betwen 'absolute truth' and 'empirical truth' as follows. 2''You receive a balance sheet from a public company and observe that the assets amount to such and such a figure Is this true? Certainly, it is certified by a chartered. accountant But is it really true? Many questions arise, the real values of items are often very different from those which figure in the balance sheet. I am not especially referring to fraudulent companies, There is a blessed phrase "hidden reserves"; and, generally speaking, the more respectable the company the more widely does its balance sheet deviate from reality".
1 The Nature of the Physical World p 26 2 Ibid P 33
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