Jaina Logic

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

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Sytrade the complementarity principle in physics. Above all Syadvadam and so the complementarity approach - is a guide for the conduct of life and moral advancoment of man. Syadvada is indispensable for the pursuit of truth and akihesa in all their varied aspects
"A favourite maxim of Bohr of interest in connection with Syadvada is the distinction between the two kinds of truths, profound truths and trivial truths. For a profound truth its opposite or negation is also a profound truth. For a trivial truth its opposite is false, an absurdity. Statements expressing the highest wisdom often involve words whose meaning cannot be defined un-ambiguously. Thus the truth of a statement of the highest wisdom 18 not absolute, but is only relative to a suitable meaning for the ambiguous words in it, with the consequcnce that the converse statement also has validity and is also wisdom."
Dr. Kothari presents an example of the behaviour of an atom, limiting himself to the domain of logical empirical experience. In the common sense language, when we make two statements about the existence of a table or a chair and say, 'the chair is in the room' and 'the chair is not in the room', both cannot be true at the same time and both cannot be false at the same time. The Laws of Contradiction and of the Excluded Middle, soem to be operative in these cases. “But this fundamental principle of logic and common sense is in general violated in atomic phenomena. Atoms in general behave in a manner completely foreign, totally repugnant, to the common sense and classical logic.
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