SAPTABHANGINAYA - 7 forms of
judgment
By using syat, we get
seven forms of judgments known as Saptabhanginaya.
1.
Syat asti -
relatively a thing is real. Somehow S is P.
2.
Syat nasti -
relatively a thing is unreal. Somehow S is not P.
3.
Syat asti
nasti - relatively a thing is real and unreal . Somehow S is P and is also not
P.
4.
Syat
avaktavyam - relatively a thing is indescribable. Somehow S is indescribable.
5.
Syat asti avaktavyam
- Somehow S is P and is also indescribable.
6.
Syat nasti
avaktavyam - Somehow S is not P and is also indescribable.
7.
Syat asti nasti
avaktavyam - Somehow S is P and is also not P and also indescribable.
Saptabhanginaya logically
leads to the doctrine of Mannyness of
Reality.
Philosophical value of 4th form - Syat avaktavyam
Syat avaktavyam - somehow
S is indescribable.
A jar is black when raw
and red when it is baked. But if we are asked, what is the real color of jar
under all conditions, then only answer would be that jar cannot be described.
·
Though an
object can be describe from different standpoints, in different aspects
separately, it cannot be described at all if no such distinction of standpoint
and aspect is made.
·
This points
out that philosophical wisdom does not always consist in the ability to answer
a question by a straight affirmative or negative, but also in realizing that
some questions, by their very nature, are unanswerable.
·
Recognition
of this form of judgment shows that jainas logic does not violate the principle
of contradiction.
Criticism
- They have give 7-scattered forms of judgments but fails to synthesize them, infact, they cannot be synthesized in the absence of absolute.
- They failed to recognize the fact that reality is a system where all dualism, pluralism and contradictions are dissolved.
- Last three judgments are superfluous and redundant.
- They have earlier criticized the conception of indescribable as a contradictory but they themselves have used it.
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