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    All phenomena lack intrinsic identity — Carmelics
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    All phenomena lack intrinsic identity

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    • 1.The identity of any phenomenon is neither singular nor plural in reality
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    • 2.Whatever lacks both singular and plural identity lacks intrinsic identity (by analogy with a reflection)
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    • 1.The law of identity (A=A) is a necessary truth that grounds all predication and is not itself conventionally established.
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    • 2.If phenomena lacked all intrinsic identity, no distinction between phenomena could be drawn, collapsing into a monism the Madhyamaka explicitly rejects.
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    • 3.The reflection analogy presupposes the intrinsic identity of the mirror and object, undermining the argument's own logical foundation.
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    • 1.Dignāga and Dharmakīrti's Buddhist epistemology posits svalakṣaṇa (particular self-characteristics) as causally efficacious and uniquely real.
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    • 2.Whatever is causally efficacious must possess determinate intrinsic properties sufficient to explain its specific causal powers.
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    • 3.Universal emptiness of intrinsic identity is therefore incompatible with the Buddhist phenomenological account of perceptual contact with particulars.
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    The most well-known of Śāntarakśita’s arguments is the neither-one-nor many argument,[14] which seeks to examine the final (or ultimate) identity (ngo bo la dpyod pa) of all phenomena. In his [MAK] and [MAV] Śāntarakṣita develops this argument in a great detail. The essential feature of the argument is as follows: “The entities that are proclaimed by our own [Buddhist] schools and the other [non-Buddhist] schools, lack intrinsic identity because in reality their identity is neither a (1) singu
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