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    All phenomena are empty of any intrinsic reality — Carmelics
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    All phenomena are empty of any intrinsic reality

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    • 1.All phenomena lack any singular identity
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    • 2.All phenomena lack any plural identity
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    • 3.The second and third criteria are mutually entailing and together prove the neither-one-nor-many argument
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    • 1.Dignāga and Dharmakīrti's svalakṣaṇa doctrine holds that causally efficacious particulars possess unique intrinsic characters that ground perceptual knowledge.
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    • 2.If phenomena wholly lacked intrinsic reality, causal efficacy would be indeterminate, rendering the Buddhist epistemological project of distinguishing valid from invalid cognition incoherent.
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    • 3.A coherent theory of two truths requires conventional truth to retain enough ontological grip to support causal explanation, which presupposes some non-relational properties.
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    • 1.The neither-one-nor-many argument assumes that identity must be either strictly singular or strictly plural, but trope theory allows for numerically distinct yet qualitatively unified property-instances that escape this dilemma.
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    • 2.If a phenomenon's intrinsic character is constituted by its own particular trope rather than a universal or a plurality, Bhāviveka's and Candrakīrti's exhaustive disjunction is not logically closed.
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    • 3.Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika realists such as Uddyotakara explicitly argued that universal properties (sāmānya) inhere in substances as real, mind-independent features, providing a historically grounded alternative ontology.
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    Thus the second and the third criteria which are mutually entailing prove the entailment of the neither one-nor many argument. Once the entailment[15] of the argument is accomplished, in Śāntarakṣita’s view, all potential loopholes in this argument are addressed. And therefore the argument successfully proves that all phenomena are empty of any intrinsic reality, since they all lack any singular or plural identity.
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    Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika realists such as Uddyotakara explicitly argued that universal pr...
    Once the entailment of the argument is established, all potential loopholes are ...
    The neither-one-nor-many argument assumes that identity must be either strictly ...
    The second and third criteria are mutually entailing and together prove the neit...
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