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    Challenges→Witnessing consciousness is self-illuminating and does not require a second cognition to be known

    If momentary cognitions can be self-presenting without any underlying persistent witness, the self-illumination argument establishes reflexivity but not the existence of a unitary, unchanging witnessing consciousness Śaṅkara requires.

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    Momentary cognitions(epistemology/philosophy of mind)
    Thoughts or moments of awareness that exist only for a brief instant, rather than lasting over time.
    Self-illumination argument(epistemology/philosophy of mind)
    A philosophical argument claiming that consciousness proves its own existence simply by being aware, without needing external proof.
    Self-presenting(epistemology)
    The ability of something to make itself known or obvious without needing anything else to explain or prove it exists.
    Unitary consciousness(philosophy of mind)
    A single, unified experience of awareness that stays the same over time, rather than being made up of separate pieces.
    reflexivity(Relational models in modal logic)

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    A property of a relation R on W such that every state w stands in relation R to itself; corresponds to the Veracity axiom in epistemic logic (what is known is true)
    witnessing consciousness(Advaita Vedanta epistemology)
    The non-objectifiable subject that stands behind cognitive intentionality and cannot attend to itself as an object.
    Śaṅkara(as a historical philosopher being compared to Rāmānuja)
    An influential Indian philosopher (8th century) who founded a major school of Hindu philosophy teaching that only God (Brahman) is ultimately real and everything else is illusion.

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