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    It is not the case that If attention were constitutive rather than selective, the Yogacara conflates the conditions for cognition's genesis with the conditions for its conceptual elaboration, committing a genetic fallacy.

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    • 1.Constitutive processes can be both originary and elaborative simultaneously—they need not be separated into distinct phases with different rules.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'conditions for genesis' and 'conditions for elaboration' may itself be a product of dualistic thinking Yogacara rejects.
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    • 3.Calling this a genetic fallacy assumes attention's role is merely historical; Yogacara claims attention continuously constitutes all cognition.
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    • 1.Genesis and conceptual elaboration are logically distinct processes: origins explain how something begins, not what makes it intelligible.
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    • 2.Yogacara treats attention as foundational to all experience, blurring the distinction between enabling conditions and interpretive frameworks.
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    • 3.Inferring conceptual content from pre-conceptual cognitive origins commits genetic fallacy: a thing's source doesn't determine its nature.
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