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Concluding Observations
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Such an interpretation of the significance of Syādvāda would also imply further that it truly makes for a balancing effect in so far as it complements the function of Nayavāda which is aimed at a critical evaluation of all one-sided views. For, the rejection of extreme views (which the doctrine of Nayavāda basically stands for) is mainly aimed at pointing to the need for moderate formulations which would be acceptable. Since both aspects of the idea of criticism as synthesis (found in Syādvāda) and the idea of criticism as analysis (found in Nayavāda) have already been explained in this study, suffice it to reiterate here as a concluding note that the Jaina view of the meta-philosophical function of philosophy consists not simply in sitting in judgment over the question: Which school of philosophy is to be accepted and which others are to be rejected? but rather in evaluating objectively the claims and counterclaims put forward by different systems and identifying the contributions they all have made in the difficult enterprise called philosophising which is common to them all.
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