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    Supports→The denial of present time leads to the absurd consequence that nothing can be known perceptually

    Dharmakīrti's apoha doctrine confirms that even conceptual overlays on perception presuppose a causally efficacious present-moment particular (svalakṣaṇa).

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    • 1.Apoha requires excluding what something is not, which presupposes prior causal contact with determinate particulars, not abstract universals.
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    • 2.Conceptual exclusion (apoha) of irrelevant properties depends on perceptual discrimination of unique causal features only svalakṣaṇa possess.
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    • 3.If concepts arose without anchoring to causally efficacious particulars, apoha would be arbitrary projection rather than epistemically grounded negation.
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    • 1.Apoha may operate through relational contrast among conceptual contents themselves, not requiring grounding in causally unique particulars independently.
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    • 2.The claim conflates two distinct questions: what causally triggers concepts versus what makes conceptual exclusions logically determinate or referentially stable.
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    • 3.Buddhist phenomenalism about svalakṣaṇa as 'present-moment' faces the regress problem: prior moments were also particulars but are now causally inert.
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