Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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THE DOCTRINE OF SYADVAD. unity in our conception of things by thinking
Criticism of them as individual entities each endowed the Solutions
offered by with manifold qualities. They are substances the faina
Realistic according to philosophers, which possess various properties such as extension, soli. dity, weight, colour etc. Or they are substances or subjects to whon belong the capacities of sensation, feeling, and perception etc But a careful obsèı vation will show that such a device obviously fails to give us any real apprehension of existence-even though it may be the simplest individual existence. because in trying to give unity to a number of unconnccted determinations by dscribing them to a common substance what we really do is to add to these determinations another determination, equally isolated and unconnected with the rest Take away the other determinations what will be left of your substance? It is impossible to explain the known by the unknown So to apprehend the real unity of different qualities or to put in other words, lo think them as one what mind denjands is, that we should thuk or have a sational notion of the ielation of each to each and that we should discern how the
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