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Jaina Relativism(Anekāntavāda) and Theory of Relativity
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internal and individual element expressed in terms of meditative perception. Though many philosophies have not given details about the types of knowledgeless, but Jainas specify five types of cognitions. The scientific knowledge is involved in empirical direct cognition while telepathy, clairvoyance and absolute cognition is intuitive knowledge. The scriptural knowledge is the fifth one. Thus, the Jainas follow the fact of three types of cognition which they also call instruments of valid cognition by causal relationship. As they originate from the same sourcehuman mind, the could be assumed to be somehow closely related despite the facts of Tablel. Concepts about Reality and Universe
Both ways of knowing things have given us concepts about universe and its multidimensional phenomena. Most scientists and, philosophers presume the objective reality of the universe and its contents. Pure monism (animism or in animism) has changed and since the days of dualistic or Cartesian approach, spirit and matter have been taken as independent realities. The spirit has been termed by various, supposed to be equivalent, names during the ages:?, mind, soul, brain, consciousness etc. Infact, it is a living unit now called a non-material force of which these elements form a part. The living is responsible for knowing about self and other material world. The living one employed the methods, as above, to learn about the non-living. Table II shows the
Table II Classical and current Concepts about Universe Classical Concepts
Current Concepts A- Universe 1. Classical physics is a solid rock Modern Physics calls it a marshy
on. 2- Universe is a predictable, Universe is indeterminate, objective engineered and inseparable in parts, strange to common-sense reality.
senses, transcending classical logic, subjective, dynamic realityan inseparable whole including observer in an essential way.
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