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    Challenges→The appearance of phenomena depends upon empirical awareness (vijñāna), while consciousness itself arises in dependence upon the sense organ and the physical object.

    Dignāga argues that the object of perceptual awareness is the svalakṣaṇa (particular), which is causally efficacious but never directly represented in conceptually structured experience.

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    Causally efficacious(describing whether mental events can make things occur)
    Actually causing something to happen; having real causal power to produce effects in the world.
    Conceptually structured experience(contrasted with direct perception)
    Experience that has been processed by your mind into thoughts, categories, and language—turning raw sensation into ideas and words.
    Dignāga(as the main philosopher being discussed)
    A Buddhist philosopher from around 480-540 CE who made major contributions to how we know things are true, particularly focusing on perception and reasoning.
    Perceptual awareness(as used in epistemology)
    The direct experience of perceiving something through your senses—seeing, hearing, touching, etc.
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    (Bhāvaviveka's critique of Mādhyamika, concerning the two-truths framework)
    Intrinsic and unique particulars; the defining characteristic by which conventional reality is posited as intrinsically and uniquely real.

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