Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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admission of induction in sensuous perception
of inferential knowledge.
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AN EPITOME OF JAINÍSM. guilty of a crime for the abandonment of the original position (afaat yare) already taken up by you in sone form or other.
Secondly,~Again when you maintain that Unconcious excepting Perception all other forms of
evidence are alike fallacious and as such homogeneous, you admit yourself the legitimacy of induction which is but a form of inference.
Thirdly-Then again you reject every Vindication kind of inference, but how do you carry on
your debate? Şurely by means of words which are but symbols of thought and when you attack your antagonists for their mistaken faith in inference without which you could not so much as surmise that your antagonists held erroneous opinions, such erroneous opinions being never brought into contact with your organs of sense but are only supposed to exist on the strength of inference (46A1A) from the symbolic movement of thought. And,
Finally,--you can not but admit of interence being another means of knowledge as will be evident from the following To take for example, I have been very often into
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