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    External sense-objects are unreal. — Carmelics
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    External sense-objects are unreal.

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    • 1.Every cognition of a purported external object is phenomenologically exhausted by its representational content (ākāra), never the object itself.
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    • 2.If the representational form (ākāra) fully accounts for the cognitive event, positing a causally redundant external object violates parsimony (Dignāga, Pramāṇasamuccaya).
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    • 3.What is causally redundant and cognitively inaccessible in principle has no warrant for existence and may be classed as unreal.
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    • 1.Dream objects produce fully determinate perceptual experiences indistinguishable in structure from waking perception, yet possess no external referent (Vasubandhu, Viṃśikā).
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    • 2.If phenomenologically identical cognitive episodes can arise without external objects, the inference from experience to external object is systematically underdetermined.
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    • 3.A posit that is neither necessary for nor verifiable by any possible experience fails the criterion of conventional cognitive validity (pramāṇa) and is thus unreal.
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    • 1.An external sense-object cannot be the intentional object of cognition as a single unified thing.
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    • 2.An external sense-object cannot be the intentional object of cognition as a multiple of isolated atoms.
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    • 3.An external sense-object cannot be the intentional object of cognition as an aggregate, because the atom is not proven to exist.
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    Since unity is an essential characteristic of being the whole, or composite whereas indivisibility an essential characteristic of being an atom when both the unity and individuality of the atoms are rejected, then the whole and indivisible atoms are no longer admissible. Therefore, Vasubandhu sums up the Yogācāra objections against the reality of the external sense-objects (āyatanas) as: “An external sense-object is unreal because it cannot be the intentional object of cognition either as (1) a
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    If phenomenologically identical cognitive episodes can arise without external ob...
    If the representational form (ākāra) fully accounts for the cognitive event, pos...
    What is causally redundant and cognitively inaccessible in principle has no warr...
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