anekantavada
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See also: anekāntavāda
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit अनेकान्तवाद (an-ekānta-vāda, “scepticism, non-absolutism”), a compound literally meaning "doctrine of non-exclusivity".
Pronunciation
Noun
anekantavada (uncountable)
- (Jainism) The doctrine of many-sidedness, specifically that reality and truth have multiple aspects and demand diverse points of view.
- 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 13:
- And, ultimately, anekantavada was not a doctrine of relativism: the blind men were, in the end, arguing over the same elephant.
Further reading
anekantavada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
