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    Supports→The ideas of causality, arising, perishing, unity, and multiplicity cannot correspond to reality

    If no possible form of causality is coherent, then causality itself cannot be a feature of reality

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    At the heart of Jñānagarbha’s argument against the tenability of causality is his argument that none of the possible ways of looking at the relation of conditions and their effects are workable. There are four possibilities. Either many conditions produce a single effect, or many conditions produce many effects, or a single condition produces many effects, or a single condition produces a single effect. His presentation of an explanation for why each of these possibilities is untenable is in pla

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