Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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TAIN THEORY OF FORMAL LOGIC
the kitchen room as well as in other places and I have invariably observed that where there was smoke there was fire Having met with not a single exception to the rule, I become convinced of the fact that there is an universal antecedence of fire in respect of smoke Afterwards
1 go to a hill for a trip I see smoke there and I doubt somehow whether or not there is fire in the hill and the moment I observe smoke on it, I recall to my mind the invariable concommitance between fire and smoke of which I had become pretty well convinced before, and I conclude that the hill has fire in it as there is smoke on it Surely this is a case of inference to the point and and you cannot but admit the legitimacy of the issue in question
Having thus refuted the Chârvåka hypothesis so far their means of knowledge is concerned and having demonstrated as well the legitimate possibility of Inference() beyond all shadow of doubt according to the general acceptation of the logical term in question, it is imperative that we shall, ere we enter on any other topics bearing upon
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Demonstra
tion of the
legitimacy of
Inference
Necsesity of a brief Sur sey of the Jain
of formal
logic