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    It is not the case that Human languages are manifestations of cosmic articulation rather than purely human constructs.

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    • 1.Languages exhibit arbitrary sign-signified relations (Saussure) that vary radically across cultures, inconsistent with a unified cosmic source.
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    • 2.If cosmic articulation generated all languages equally, we would expect structural universality, but linguistic diversity falsifies this prediction.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that linguistic meaning is constituted by communal practice, not prior metaphysical structures.
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    • 2.Any cosmic source of language is epistemically inaccessible without the human practices that already constitute linguistic meaning, making the cosmic grounding explanatorily redundant.
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    • 1.The process of articulation of the Dharma by the hosshin generates everything in the cosmos.
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    • 2.Human languages are among the things generated by that articulation.
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    • 3.Therefore human languages are manifestations of the hosshin's cosmic articulation.
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