The Jaina Doctrine of AnekΔntavΔda
In part II of A Buddha Land in this World, I proposed a variety of perspectival realism based on, among others, YogΔcΔra and the philosophy of Donald Davidson. The term βperspectival realismβ refers to a loose collection of theories that are realist, in the minimal sense of recognizing the existence of a mind-independent, external reality, but that reject the idea that there is just one βrightβ way of describing reality. Rather, descriptions or understandings of or views on reality are perspectival, that is, they are views from particular perspectives, or constructions due to particular conceptual schemes. And because there is...