Jaina Logic

Author(s): T G Kalghatgi
Publisher: Raja Krisen Jain Charitable Trust New Delhi

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the empirical phenomena one has to take recourse to other nayas. In this sense, Pravacanasara and Pancastika yasara have given elaborate study of the fundamentals of Jaina metaphysics.
It would be apter to say that the understanding of the principles of naya and the right interpretation of the doctrine of naya is the greatest need for getting the right perspective of jaina philosophy
In the Dhavala, it has been suggested that the muni who has the right understanding of the principle of naya has the right knowledge of the higher philosophy.
The modern Western Philosophers come very near the concept of naya and its complexity when they discuss the problems of relations in logic and the relational way of thought This need not, however, be confused with Relational inference as when we argue: A is the friend of B. B is the friend of C. Therefore, A is the friend of C. This would involve fallacious reasoning in relational thought. Such relational arguments are not always valid. The validity of the argument depends on facts of experience Anekanta and nayavāda do not at all subscribe to such fallacious reasoning.
Stebbing says that all deduction depends upon the logical properties of relations. Individuals in the universe are not isolated; they stand in various relations Physical objects stand in spatial and gravitational relations. Human beings are related in numerous ways e g by Kinship by enmity or by friendship, by precedence.
Relation is said to hold or fail of given terms. When R holds from X to Y, then there is some relation which nolds from
38. Dharala 11 Gatha 60
"Natthi naehip vihonam suttam atthovva jinavaramadammi
To Nayavāde pivunā mupipo Siddhantıya nonti" 59. Stobbing (Susan L) A Modern Elementary Logic (Mathuen London
1957) pp. 80.