Jainism Christianity and Science

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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IMMORTALITY
33 three different parts of a composite logician,' none of these parts will be in possession of the whole syllogism, 80 that the three limbs of the syllogism will be deprived of their logical coherence and be reduced to bare independent statements, unconnected with the remaining parts. And if you spread out the contents and implications of the two premises and the conclusion over a larger number of parts, the result will be absurd.
3. The sense of complex sentences can only be grasped if the knowing consciousness be unitary. As for instance, the sentence “ London is the largest city in the world” will cease to be a sentence if its words be distributed over a composite perceiving mass; and the utmost bewilderment will be the result if the letters of the words are distributed over again.
4. Certain conceptions are incapable of being distributed, e.g., love, beauty, unity, infinity, which cannot be broken up into parts.
5. Psychic presentation is not a composite mass itself; it is a unity. If I see a crowd of a thousand , men, it is not as if the ideas of a thousand men were pasted and glued together to constitute a crowd picture. There is only one picture in the mind of the whole crowd, and this picture is unbreakable, uncomposed and uncreatable.
6. Long continuous trains of thought, arguments and disputations, will be impossible for a consciousness that is like a stream, and in the absence of an enduring individụal. For a stream is a mere multitude of passing states, every one of which might have its own mental equipment, but it will carry its little bit of immediate experiences with itself and leave nothing behind to be
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