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    Challenges→The whole world is a product of mind — specifically, the collective mental actions (karma) of all beings.

    Dharmakirti's pramāṇavāda establishes that valid cognition must be causally responsive to external particulars (svalakṣaṇa), implying mind-independent causal relata.

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    • 1.Causal efficacy requires mind-independent relata; if particulars were mind-dependent, causation would be circular and explanatorily vacuous.
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    • 2.Perceptual error presupposes a distinction between appearance and reality; this distinction collapses without external particulars.
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    • 3.Dharmakirti's two-source model (perception and inference) requires perception to be non-constructive contact with svalakṣaṇa to ground inference.
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    • 1.Causality in Abhidharma is defined by functional coordination (sahabhāva), not by metaphysical externality; internalism is compatible with pramāṇavāda.
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    • 2.Svalakṣaṇa may denote the unique particularity of cognitive states themselves, not entities external to cognition, preserving phenomenal responsiveness without realism.
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    • 3.The argument conflates 'mind-independence' with 'causal responsiveness'; valid cognition could track internal patterns that reliably correspond to non-cognitive structures.
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