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    It is not the case that Dharmakīrti's theory of svalakṣaṇa holds that genuine causal efficacy (arthakriyāśakti) requires temporal succession, not co-presence.

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    • 1.Physical causation (e.g., gravity between masses) appears simultaneous; denying co-presence causality excludes actual causal phenomena.
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    • 2.Temporal succession may mark causation's discovery, not its requirement; the causal relation itself could be metaphysically timeless.
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    • 3.Material constitution is simultaneous yet causal: parts causally compose wholes without temporal gap, challenging the necessity claim.
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    • 1.Causation requires a temporal gap: an effect cannot exist before its cause, so simultaneity logically precludes causal relations.
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    • 2.Only successive states allow us to distinguish cause from effect; co-present entities are epistemically indistinguishable as causal relata.
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    • 3.Change itself is temporal: if cause and effect are simultaneous, neither undergoes transformation, contradicting the nature of causation.
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