If the causal-continuity relation between earlier and later person-stages is itself an ultimate fact, then persons exist at least derivatively as real patterns, contra the claim that they fail to exist at all as ultimate entities.

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Ultimate entities(What Vasubandhu claims dharmas are): Things that truly and fundamentally exist on their own, as opposed to things that only seem to exist because we group other things together.
causal-continuity relation(used to describe how a person at one moment connects to that same person at a later moment): A connection between earlier and later events where each event is caused by or flows naturally from the previous one, creating an unbroken chain of cause-and-effect.
contra(as a Latin phrase introducing an opposing position): A Latin word meaning 'against'; used here to signal that the statement is disagreeing with Epstein's view.
exist derivatively(contrasts with existing as a basic, independent thing): To exist as something real, but only because other more fundamental things exist—like how a shadow exists because of light and an object, not on its own.

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