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    Challenges→Principle 1's definition of perception is too broad, because it entails that every awareness is perceptual.

    Every awareness is produced by the instrumentality of the inner sense faculty (manas).

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    Gaṅgeśa criticises Principle 1 on three grounds: (a) it entails that every awareness is perceptual since every awareness is produced by the instrumentality of the ‘inner’ sense faculty or manas; (b) it fails to include divine perception, which involves no sensory connection; and (c) there is no one type of sensory connection, nor anything obviously in common to the ad hoc list of six types. Gaṅgeśa therefore offers a new definition:

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