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    'Everything in the world' cannot serve as the locus of th... — Carmelics
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    'Everything in the world' cannot serve as the locus of the inference for God's existence

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    • 1.In Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika ontology, eternal entities like ākāśa (space) and paramāṇus (atoms) are explicitly classified as anitya or nitya, not as kāryas (effects).
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    • 2.An inference requires the hetu (reason) to be vyāpaka—universally present in the pakṣa (locus)—so even one counter-instance invalidates the inferential schema.
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    • 3.If eternal, uncreated entities are genuine constituents of 'everything in the world,' the locus contains both effects and non-effects, destroying the required vyāpti (pervasion).
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    • 1.Dignāga's logic, influential across Indian philosophical schools, holds that a valid hetu must satisfy pakṣadharmatā: the reason must genuinely characterize the entire proposed locus without exception.
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    • 2.Kumārila Bhaṭṭa's Mīmāṃsā critique of Nyāya theology argued that invoking 'the world' as a unified inferential locus commits the fallacy of anaikāntika, since the locus is not homogeneous with respect to the reason property.
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    • 3.A locus that is heterogeneous with respect to the hetu produces an inconclusive (anaikāntika) inference, rendering any theistic conclusion drawn from it epistemically unwarranted.
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    • 1.The Manual of Reason's desired reason property is being an effect
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    • 2.Many things in the world (e.g. atoms, space) are not effects
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    • 3.Therefore the reason property would not be unequivocally present in 'everything in the world' as locus
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    Comments: (1) Why does The Manual of Reason take dyads to be the locus of the inference? This is, in fact, a clever move. Obviously, we cannot take God to be the locus (e.g. God exists, because…), for then the first criterion on a sound inference will not be met—the reason property, whatever it is, cannot be uncontroversially present in a locus whose very existence is controversial. We can’t take the locus to be “everything in the world”, for many such things are not effects (e.g. atoms, space)
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