Nandanvana

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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Theory of Relativity and Relativism : (39)
(ii) Heliocentric and geocentric nature of universe.
(iii) Phenomena connected with static and fast moving observer, object and events.
(iv) Inter-relatedness of mind and matter.
(v) Variability of mass, length and time under static and fast moving conditions.
Many authors have described Anekāntavāda mostly qualitatively with above characteristics. They have called it as the highest reach of intuitive human mind, dynamic dialectics taking us deeper and deeper into exploration and comprehension of reality and as a guide and inspiration for fundamental studies in science and mathematics. Of course, it may not be mathematical, but it is highly statistical and speculative. It is universally applicable and indispensable for ethical, spiritual and intellectual-cum-mental non-violence. It is not a rest house for absolute truth. It is a principle of 'Also-ism' rather than 'Only-ism'.
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However, Mahlanobis' has suggested it to be the logical background of statistical theory in a qualitative form. He maintains that seven-fold predications of Syadvāda are necessary and sufficient to exhaust the possibilities of knowledge as exemplified by him through tossing a coin. Kothari20 has also supported him and has gone still further to show that Syadvāda mode of seven-fold predication may be illustrated through the superposition principle of quantum mechanics by the example of an atomic particle in a box with two compartments. We need not go into details of the representation. However, the interested readers are referred to KCS Fel. Vol. Rewa, 1980 p. 368. Haldane has also realized the importance of Syädvāda by stating that any logical system allowing conclusions intermediate between certainty and uncertainty should interest scientists.
All this shows that the theory of Anekāntavāda basically involves not only the qualitative and logistic frame for the relativity theory, but also to Quantum mechanics, Principles of complementarity and superposition and Statistical theory of probability which support the dual nature of radiations and particles and point out the relativity of seemingly opposite attributes and inter-relatedness of various events and phenomena. Moreover, the many scientifically verified