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    Challenges→The perfect nature is the eternal nonexistence of the imaginary nature (subject-object duality) in the dependent nature

    If subject-object duality is a necessary condition for dependent-nature cognition, its 'eternal nonexistence' in the dependent nature entails the dependent nature itself is impossible.

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    Dependent-nature cognition(Buddhist philosophy and epistemology)
    A way of understanding or knowing something that relies on or depends on other things to exist—nothing stands completely on its own.
    Eternal nonexistence(metaphysics (study of what exists))
    The state of something having never existed at any point in time, rather than existing once and then ceasing to exist.
    Ontology/Ontological(in metaphysics)
    The philosophical study of what actually exists or is real, as opposed to what merely seems to exist or what we can know about things.
    necessary condition(Counterfactual analysis of causation; Mackie 1965, 1974)
    A condition C is necessary for event E if E would not have occurred in the absence of C
    subject-object duality

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    (describing how we normally think about perception)
    The common assumption that there's a clear separation between 'you' (the subject experiencing things) and 'the world' (the object being experienced), as if they're two separate things.

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