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    Challenges→The Nyāya inference that the world has an agent as an instrumental cause is defeated by the upādhi having-a-perceptible-body

    Having-a-perceptible-body pervades having-an-agent-as-an-instrumental-cause: all agents have perceptible bodies

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    However, another refutation refined by Buddhist philosophers over the centuries is not dismissed so easily (Mokṣākāragupta 1998: 98; Patil 2009). The Nyāya argument falls to an upādhi, in this case the property, having-a-perceptible-body. As we have seen, an upādhi is defined as a property that pervades the probandum while failing to pervade the prover, that is to say, that is entailed by the presence of the probandum while not being instanced in at least one case of the prover. Having-an-agent-

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