Jaina Logic

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

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Jaima logie He would have made his philosophy more synoptic and comprehensive and not merely rigorously rationalistic, formal and deductive 141
In recent Western Philosophy A. N. Whitehead's theory of 'coherence' expresses the concept of anekanta. It presents his attitude to reality by the complete problem of the metaphysics of substance and of flux as a full expression of the union of the two notions. Substance expresses permanence and flux emphasises impermanence and change. Reality is to be found in the synthesis of the two. Both are real. Whitehead showed that reality can best be understood by the integral approach in which the ultimate postulates of permanence and change are harmoniously blended. “No entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth. This character is its coherence.14. “All general truths condition each other; and the limits of their application cannot be adequately defined apart from their co-relation by yet wider generalities" 15*
And Bertrand Russell's "doctrine of perspectives" does bring us rearer to the Anekanta view of understanding reality. Like the Jaina view, Russell believes that the world is objective and that reality is manifold. The object presents many appearances at a moment These appearances are sense-data revealing different aspects of the object. All these different aspects are real, but the object as a whole cannot be identified with any one of the aspects. It is logically constructed out of sense data "All the aspects of a thing are real whereas the thing is a
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Bhagavan Maha vinu and his Relevance to Modern Times : Etd. Prem Suman Jain, Bikaner. 1976 Article by Kalghatgi (TG) Jaina Dialecne ani Modern Thought p. 50 Whitehead (AN) Proces.and Reality: (1929) Part-1, Ch. 1, Section 1 Ibid Section IV
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