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    If a phenomenon's intrinsic character is constituted by its own particular trope rather than a universal or a plurality, Bhāviveka's and Candrakīrti's exhaustive disjunction is not logically closed.

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    Key Terms

    Bhāviveka(in Buddhist philosophy)
    A Buddhist philosopher from around the 6th century who developed logical and epistemological arguments within the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy.
    Candrakīrti(as the main philosopher being discussed)
    An Indian Buddhist philosopher from around the 600s CE who wrote detailed commentaries on Buddhist logic and metaphysics, particularly focusing on the idea that nothing has a permanent, independent essence.
    Constituted by(describing what conditions would make something true)
    Made up of or determined by; in this case, what things would need to happen for something to count as true.
    exhaustive disjunction(in logic)
    A logical statement that lists all possible options for something, with no other possibilities left out—like saying 'either it rains or it doesn't rain.'

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    intrinsic character(metaphysics)
    The essential properties or qualities that something has all by itself, independent of anything else—like the color or size of an object.
    logically closed(in logic)
    Complete and self-contained in a logical sense, with no gaps, contradictions, or missing pieces that would undermine the argument.
    trope(Trope theory alternative to immanent realism about universals)
    A particular, spatiotemporally located instance or 'case' of a property or relation, as opposed to a repeatable universal.
    universal(Argument for the generality of Turing machines)
    A computing system capable of simulating any other computing system of the same or lesser power; used here to describe Turing machines as the most general model of computation.

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