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    A dharma's capability (vertical causality) further individuates that dharma as that very particular dharma.

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    • 1.Capability is the means by which a dharma facilitates the occurrence of other dharmas outside its own consciousness series.
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    • 2.Vertical causality locates a dharma within the web of interrelations connecting it with the rise and fall of other dharmas.
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    • 3.Vertical causality manifests a dharma's unique quality and intensity of operation.
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa demonstrates that dharmas are individuated by their intrinsic nature (svabhāva), not by causal relations.
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    • 2.Causal capability is relational and context-dependent, whereas individuation requires an intrinsic, non-relational ground.
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    • 3.If capability individuates, then a dharma would lose its identity when its causal context changes, violating Buddhist momentariness doctrine.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory establishes that causal relations between perceptions do not constitute a distinct individuating property of those perceptions.
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    • 2.Vertical causality describes a functional role a dharma plays, but functional roles can in principle be multiply realized by numerically distinct dharmas.
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    • 3.Therefore, shared causal capability between two dharmas would undermine rather than guarantee their numerical individuation.
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    The Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika distinction between a dharma’s activity and capability implies that each dharma or consciousness moment effects the next moment within its series, but it can also act as a contributory condition towards producing a different sort of effect. Activity engenders the next moment within a dharma’s series, while capability generates a different effect and explains the causal efficacy of past dharmas. Williams (1981, 246–247) helpfully notes that we may render this “horizont
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    Vertical causality locates a dharma within the web of interrelations connecting ...
    Vertical causality manifests a dharma's unique quality and intensity of operatio...
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