GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -syādvāda, 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”).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Jain metaphysics, called Anekantavada or the doctrine of the manyness of reality, is a realistic and relativistic pluralism. A thing has got an infinite number of characteristics of its own. It refers to the simultaneous acceptance of multiple, diverse, even contradictory viewpoints.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Jain theory of Syadvada is manifested in the process of Saptabhangi (seven-fold predication). This process ensures that each statement is expressed from seven different conditional and relative viewpoints or propositions, and thus it is know as theory of conditioned predication.

Detailed explanation-4: -CRITICIAM OF SYADVADA: The Buddhists and the Vedantins have criticized Svldvada as a self contradictory doctrine. Taking the word ‘ syat ‘ in its popular sense of probability, they have found it easy to condemn this theory.