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    It is not the case that A unified whole cannot be the object of cognition

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    • Nowhere is an external object grasped as a unity or whole apart from its parts
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Cognition operates by discriminating features, boundaries, and distinctions, which presupposes decomposition rather than holistic unity.
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    • 2.Dignāga's apoha theory shows that conceptual cognition grasps objects only through exclusion of otherness, never through positive unified wholes.
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    • 3.A genuinely unified whole would have no internal distinctions for cognitive faculties to latch onto, making it epistemically inert.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's Abhidharma analysis demonstrates that what appears as a unified whole—a chariot, a person—dissolves under analysis into discrete dharmas.
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    • 2.If the unified whole were a real object of cognition, its removal would alter the cognitive content, but cognition survives elimination of the posited unity intact.
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