PP220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ahimsa, Indexicality, Hermeneutics
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Consiousness vs. matter (non-life: start at saptabha gi-naya or conditional predication (page 2) An important part of jainism philosophy is that reality is infinitely complex: the nature of the universe is plural and sophisticated, the principle of non-violence/non-harm. Approach everything from a place of non-harm and non-violence. Jainism is an atheistic spirituality: no concept of god in any recognizable forms. The jainism principles of non-violence greatly influenced ancient indian philosophy. Jains were very advanced in this (7 assertions: their ideals were constructed around the idea that the truth conditions of any proposition are dependent on hidden indexicals, what"s the difference between a proposition and a sentence? . A proposition has a truth value while a sentence doesn"t have to. Same proposition can be asserted in multiple languages. Snow is white can be said in many sentences/ways, but it will express the same proposition: it will be true under the same conditions, conditions are added on in order to be accurate.
