#anekantavada

? What are the seven “in some respect” predications of syādvāda, and is it really a many-valued logic?

Reading about many-valued and modal logics, 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 why. From…