(Fwd) Re: syAdvAda = anekAntavAda?

[Himal Trikha]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:09:52 +0200, Roland Steiner <steiner at MAILER.UNI-
MARBURG.DE> wrote:

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>Date sent:              Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:05:10 +0200
>From:                   "J. Soni" <soni at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
>Subject:                Re: syAdvAda = anekAntavAda?
>
>The following articles, with suggestions for further reading, may be useful
>for the question:
>1. B.K. Matilal: "Anekaanta: Both Yes and No" in Nagin J. Shah (ed): JAINA
>THEORY OF MULTIPLE FACETS OF REALITY AND TRUTH, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas
>pp. 1-16.
>2. J. Soni: "Jaina Theory of Manifoldness" in ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
>PHILOSOPHY, 1998 sv. Manifoldness.
>
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In addition to these publications also note:

3. FRANK VAN DEN BOSSCHE: Jain Relativism: An Attempt at Understanding. In:
Jain Studies in Honour of Jozef Deleu. Ed. by RUDY SMET and KENJI WATANABE.
Tokyo 1993, 457-474.
and
4. FRANK VAN DEN BOSSCHE: Existence and Non-Existence in Haribhadra SUri’s
AnekAnta-Jaya-PatAkA. Journal of Indian Philosophy 23,4 (1995) 381-401.

Van den Bossche distinguishes (1) anekAntavAda proper as the ontological
theory of Jain relativism, (2) syAdvAda proper or saptabhaGgIvAda as the
(meta-)logical aspect, "a corollary" of anekAntavAda proper and (3)nayavAda
as the epistemological theory.
Apart from their specific meaning the terms anekAntavAda and syAdvAda
should , so van den Bossche, also serve as designation of Jain relativism
in general.

Himal Trikha