Jaina Logic

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

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Jaina Loget
A house exists, it is a house-from the point of view of structure as it has well built kitchen, bath room etc. But, if it is rented for a godown, it is not a house at all from the functional point.
2) Syad nästi : But the affirmation of an attribute noce. ssarily involves the negation of its opposite and such a negation is a logical necessity. Then we get the predication of nasti. It means that in the other context a thing does not exist. The house is no longer used as a house if it is to be used as a godown, The existence of the house is denied in different context. We may state the instance of the story of Eudipus in Greek Mythology. Eudipus killed his father and married his mother. He came to know of it later and he subjected himself to unbearable physical and mental torture. Now the question arises – what is his relation to his mother ? From one point of view she is his mother, from another in the present context, she is his wife and from a third with reference to some other relation referring to the past, she may be his cousin Thus the complexity of relation cannot be categorically explained from only a particular point and in a specific situation and a full comprehensive picture of a thing would not be possible if we restrict our study from one aspect or the other. We have a similar story of Devadatta, like that of Eudipus, in the Jaina mythology But the difference is their outlook. Eudipus subjected himself to physical and mental torture. But Devadatta got disgusted towards this worldly life and turned towards the path way to spiritual perfection. He renounced the house-holder's life and became a muni. This aspect is not relevant for our discussion.
The importance of this predication lies in the irrefutable statement of the non-existence of a thing in the other context. 'No-existence or non-being is a determinate fact with a content and not a void'.
It would not be correct to say that first and the second predications involve contradiction, because i) they are mutually