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    It is not the case that A dharma's activity (horizontal causality) individuates that dharma as a particular event of its kind.

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    • 1.Individuation requires qualitative distinctness, not merely causal role; two dharmas of identical type in the same series perform identical causal functions yet remain numerically distinct.
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    • 2.If horizontal causality individuates, co-occurring dharmas of the same kind sharing the same causal output cannot be distinguished, generating a regress or collapse into monism.
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa establishes that own-nature (svabhāva), not causal activity, is the primary criterion of dharma identity, making activity derivative rather than individuating.
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    • 2.Activity presupposes an already-individuated entity whose causal powers are its own; causality thus tracks individuation rather than constituting it.
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    • 1.Activity is a dharma's function of precipitating the next moment of its own consciousness series.
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    • 2.To be present is to have horizontal causality.
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    • 3.Primary existents are individuated in terms of what they do.
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