anekantavada (the jaina doctrine of the many-sidedness of reality )

  • 1syādvāda — ▪ Jainism       in Jaina metaphysics, the doctrine that all judgments are conditional, holding good only in certain conditions, circumstances, or senses, expressed by the word syāt (Sanskrit: “may be”). The ways of looking at a thing (called… …

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