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attempt to interpret the historically evolved systems of European philosophy in terms of the categories formulated by him in his Logic. Here again his procedure was somewhat akin to that of the Jainas, for he considered himself to stand in relation to the systems in question almost exactly as the Jainas considered themselves to stand in relation to the historically evolved systems of Indian philosophy. In both cases it often happened that history did not produce -- or did not produce in time what logic needed. For instance, in Hegel's eyes 'becoming' was a more complete category than being' and yet Hereclitus, the representative of the former category, came earlier than Parmenides, the representative of the latter; (it waz something like Advaitavedānta not appearing on the scene simultaneously with Sautrantika Buddhism).
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