Syādvāda as the epistemological key to the jaina middle way metaphysics of anekāntavāda

Philosophy East and West 50 (3):400-407 (2000)
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An analysis of the Jain metaphysics of non-absolutism (anekāntavāda) shows how the epistemological theory of points of view (nayavāda) and the sevenfold schema of predication (saptabhaṅgī) provide a foundation for the central Jain principle of nonviolence (ahiṃsā)

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