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#anekantavada
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Syādvāda is not a seven-valued logic, and treating it as one loses the point
I grew up Jain and run a pharmacy in Ahmedabad, so I've been hearing about anekāntavāda since before I could read. Lately I keep seeing syādvāda described online as "the ancient Indian seven-valued logic", usually in the same breath as fuzzy logic.…
Started by Hetal Shah5 replies185 views -
If many-sidedness is true only from a standpoint, then Jain anekāntavāda undermines itself
Here is the classic challenge, which I want to press as hard as I can before I hear the answer. Anekāntavāda says reality is many-sided, and every claim holds only from some standpoint. Now take that claim itself. Either it holds absolutely,…
Started by Oskar Nyberg5 replies188 views -
What are the seven “in some respect” predications of syādvāda, and is it really a many-valued logic?
I work on many-valued and modal logics, and I keep meeting the Jain doctrine of syādvāda in footnotes that call it "an ancient three-valued logic" or "a seven-valued logic". I am suspicious of both descriptions, but I don't know enough to say…
Started by Tomasz Wójcik4 replies198 views