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Multi-dimensional Application of Anekantavāda
Bhattacharya a "Theory of possibility (Syādvāda).
The principle of Anekanta seems to be earlier to Pyrrho's principle, which is or seems to be a reduction and reduplication of Saptabhangi scheme without the semantic reduplication. The Jaina standpoint remains always realistic and never degenerates into scepticism to which Pyrrho's position later on reduced.
The modern revival of Pyrrho's philosophy of epoche without reference to the forgotten Indo-lonian depths of its origin is found in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl as a pivotal point of his transcendental logic which in the first half of the twentieth Century was recognised as the most suitable and broadest methodological platform for the contemporary European philosophies.
The method of epoche is designated as phenomenological methods of reduction, analysis, suspension of natural judgement or bracketing or switching off or the doxic (dogmatic) character of existential determination by "View- points” of phenomena as they appear to the immediate, theoretically unprejudiced and unbiased intuition.
Though Husserl remained a consequent idealist in claiming that by his method of epoche only “the transcendent in the imminent is attainable to the insight of our immediate experience, his basic principle “Back to the things themselves" has encouraged his followers and critics to transcend the a priori ideals of idealism and realism as an artificial Kantian device and thus to failed to disclose new dimensions and approaches to philosophical problems in our existential immediacy.
At later stage, meditative inclination disclosed a deeper import of epoche. In later meditations of Martin Heideggar, the epoche assumes better significance as “forgetfulness of Being" and "withdrawal of being and its tendency of hiding in forgetfulness and nothingness which Sartre borrowed and he expanded its scope to compare not only wide range of phenomena but the dialectical opposites to expose their concealed meaning and to reconcile the opposition of the opposites by bringing them under the widest possible genus, the ultimate Reality.
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