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whenever our above terms (italics) strike the reader as appropriate. It is responsible for many if not all developments in the sense of the Eigentümlichkeiten und Besonderheiten der Texte noticed by German scholars.
Some cases may not fully answer to our description of generative principles so that it will become necessary to distinguish between a nuclear area and an « orbit » of merely related cases. In all these contexts, formal analysis is the key for a pointed description. However, << formal analysis »> is a very general term and it should not be connected with a specified range of phenomena.
As just mentioned it is difficult to define « generative principles », and it is as a consequence also difficult to distinguish them from related concepts (e.g. « scholasticism » as described in § 18). This shows that systematization is always difficult. It will nevertheless be useful for Jainological studies to establish head categories and to arrange them at least in a semi-systematic manner.
