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- Subject: Doctrines of Maybe: 7 truth values
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- From: Amos.Omondi@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Amos Omondi)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:36:51 GMT
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- I read [*] that an ancient Hindu sect, the Jains, rejected the law of
- the excluded middle and instead believed in seven truth values,
- yielding their Doctrines of Maybe. Anyone know how they characterized
- these seven shades of truth?
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- There are still about 100 million Jains around. Why don't you
- ask in soc.culture.indian or look around for someone whose
- surname is "Jain".
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