anekantavada
See also: anekāntavāda
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Borrowed from Sanskrit अनेकान्तवाद (an-ekānta-vāda, “scepticism, non-absolutism”), a compound literally meaning "doctrine of non-exclusivity".
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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.
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- anekantavada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia