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    It is not the case that Dyads are a suitable locus for the inference to God's existence

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    • 1.Dyads can arise from the inherent combining capacity (shakti) of atoms themselves, requiring no external conscious agent as cause.
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    • 2.Vaisheshika's own category of 'unseen force' (adrishta) provides a sufficient immanent causal mechanism for atomic combination without invoking omniscience.
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    • 1.The inference from 'dyads have a maker' to 'that maker is omniscient' commits a non-sequitur: awareness of dyads does not entail awareness of all things.
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    • 2.Nyaya's own epistemology demands that inferences be grounded in observed co-presence (vyapti), but no observed maker of basic particles has ever been correlated with omniscience.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Dyads are the most basic composite things made out of atoms, and everything else is made out of them
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    • 2.Dyads are not human artefacts
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    • 3.If dyads have a maker, that maker is aware of everything, given the definition of a maker and that dyads are the basis of all things
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