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of opposites. Nāsadīya sūkta states that before creation, the state is neither existent nor non-existent. The Upanişads resolve the opposition between two extremes and effect a harmonious reconcilation between them. In the Bhagvatī sūtra of the Jainas, Lord Mahāvīra answers the questions of his disciple, Gautama and establishes the validity of the opposing situations and propositions by supplying suitable contexts to them. Buddhism also upholds the doctrine of fourfold predication; the real is seen by it in its four aspects of position, negation, position-cum-negation and inex-pressibility. In the field of Western philosophy Immanuel Kant also solves his anomalies by adopting suitable angles of view, and thus brings about reconcilation among the mutually opposing situations. Hegel's approach to the problem is also noteworthy. He conceives of a thesis and its antithesis, and reconciles them in the synthesis. This synthesis is again subjected to the same process, and thus Hegel's thought undergoes a pyramidical movement. Coming to Physics Heisanberg's discovery of the region of indeterminacy opened a new vista for exploration of reality. In this region of fine matter the universality of the law of causation is disturbed, as uncaused action and motion is noticeable in it. The theory of probability is suggestive of the same truth. The Euclidean geometry is now superseded by modern ideas which almost run against the old ones. These situations do not present a difficulity in the way of modern Physics and Mathematics. The principle of comp limentarity, promises the possibility of accommodating widely divergent situations and experiences into an underlying harmony leading to the idea of wholeness. The principle of complimentarity announces that so far what we held as mutually opposing aspects of reality are found to be complimentary to each other and pointing to a harmonious whole. We failed to approach this underlying truth about existence owing to paradigms which surrounded our minds under the pressure of old regidity and formalism of thought. This principle of complimentarity, hoped to be pregnant with the capacity to throw new light on philosophical, social and moral problems, may be seen to be very close to the doctrine of Syādvāda running through ages under varying thought-systems wittingly or unwittingly. It is very Tikely to subside even the opposition between the philosophers and the scientists to join a common venture. The scientists themselves think that the theoretical physicists are the true philosophers, according to Dr. D. S. Kothari. What is new is the fact that relativity and quantum mechanics embody the same line of thought as one finds in the Syādvāda logic. Further the Syādvāda approach enriches
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