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    If the world were solely a product of collective karma, p... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The whole world is a product of mind — specifically, the collective mental actions (karma) of all beings.

    If the world were solely a product of collective karma, perceptual error and correction would lack a principled explanation, since no external standard could distinguish veridical from illusory experience.

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    External standard(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    An independent measure or rule outside yourself that you can use to check whether something is true or false.
    Perceptual error(what the argument is trying to explain)
    When your senses mislead you—like seeing something that isn't actually there or misidentifying what you see.
    Principled explanation(as used in logic and philosophy of explanation)
    A reason or justification that follows clear, logical rules rather than being arbitrary or made up on the spot.
    illusory experience(as used in epistemology (study of knowledge))
    A perception or feeling that seems real but is actually false or misleading—like seeing something that isn't really there.
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    (Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy)
    Collective mental actions of all beings that produce and shape the experienced world.
    veridical experience(Used to argue that two observers representing a tomato's motion differently can both perceive correctly)
    A perceptual experience that accurately represents its object; a perception is veridical if it correctly captures some true relational property of the perceived object, even if that property differs from the relational property captured by another observer's veridical experience

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