However , many believe that Sankara fail to address genuine anekāntavāda . By identifying syādavāda with sansayavāda , he instead address " agnosticism " , which was argued by Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta . Many authors like Pandya believe that Sankara overlooked that , the affirmation of the existence of an object is in respect to the object itself , and its negation is in respect to what the object is not . Genuine anekāntavāda thus consider positive and negative attributes of an object , at the same time , and without any contradictions .