Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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EPISTEMOLOGY AND LOGIC. evet have that the connection between the magor ( aisa ) and the midnie or sign fetitate fat or fange) is necessaly alid universål ? For
(a) Sense-perception that ) taidot piove it in as much as, universal connection Senaten. is not a fact of experience. Experience establish can give only one particular fact arid thiat only of the present thomeiit and not of the long past not of the distant future. The eye by fact of its exercisiflg its fülictichal activity only in the preselilt reveals the objectivity of a particulat tbittg here and
od But a universal truth goes infinitëly beyond what the eye cat give. Hetice setse-berception cannbt prove ally tilecessary cotinection between the major folket) aüd the minor (aithany universal propositiohi 65 Pretijns (önfet befast)
b) But here a prima facie abfeelid might be raised to the effect that perceptible prend being bötk intetrial and external it idcludes 19 ikitüition of reason whilch givés Hebeles šaty did útiversal trülhi Not even that
klinders fortli the thorough-going wateriál: ist : thite is to such thing as fwtuitidh