NAYAVAD: AN APPROACH OF RECONCILIATION -DR ANEKANT KUMAR JAIN* We may either support/or refute/ a particular principle/or we may offer creative criticism evaluating the merits and demerits of that principle in an objective way. An approach of Reconciliation It is true that the Jains also adopted a negative approach to the non-jain systems in the middle ages but side by side, they adopted the objective attitude also through nayavad, This was based on the assumption that if we experience identity and difference both none of the two can be held as false .As regards the contradiction between the two we can resolve the contradiction by accepting relative truth of both of them- Parsamyanam vayanam miccham khalu hoi savvaha vayna. Jenanam puna vayanam sammam khu ka...