Saptbhanginaya

Author(s): Kannomal
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Pustak Pracharak Mandal

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from a variety of view points and then to produce full and complete knowledge about it. Different philosophers and thinkers of the world have judged of the various objects of the universe from various points of views. It would be well, if, by resorting to the Pluralistic argument, their different theories or opinions are compared and truth sifted out of them, dişcarding the untruth. This should be the aim of this pluralistic dialectics.
Those who have not looked minutely into the merits of Syâdvâda doctrine, doubt (many have doubted so in the past) its soundness in as much as its mutually conflicting characteristics or qualities such as eternal and nor-eternal etc., can exist in a thing. According to it, such qualities as cold and heat can exist in one object. This objection can well be met by the explanation of the Syâdvâda doctrine given above, but it would be well to illustrate it by an example.
When this doctrine recognizes in an object what would appear to be conflicting qualities, it does not do so dogmatically from a determinative point of view. It does so only in view of the various points of view from which a thing can