Nayakarnika

Author(s): Vinayvijay, Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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INTRODUCTION.
different lypes of predication which cover all possible cases of simple as well as complex judgments. Each of these predications begins with the word syát, (literally somehow, hence, from a particular stand point, or in a certain manner,) to avoid denying the other possible aspects. These seven kinds of predications are :
(1) Syádasti (exists). (2) Syánnásti (does not exist). (3) Syádasti násti (affirmation of existence from
one point and of non-existence from another). (4) Syádavaktavya (indescribable). (5) Syádasti avaklavya. (6) Syánnásti avaktavya. (7) Syádasti násti avaktavya.
Of these seven kinds of predications, the first two alone are simple judgments. The rest are all complex predications, describing things from different points of view at the same time. A thing is said to be avaktavya, i.c., indescribable, when existence and non-existence are both attributed to it at one and the same time, as must be the case with pure abstractions, such as heat, cold, goodness, etc., etc. They cannot exist by themselves, that is, apart from the substances in which they inhere, and yet are capable of being mentally conceived in the abstract.