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    Internal aspects that provide a basis for cognition arise simultaneously with cognition itself.

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    • 1.By the principle of concomitance of cause and effect (kāryakāraṇabhāva), the necessary dependence of effect on cause entails that whenever a cause is present its effect must also be present.
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    • 2.Internal aspects stand in such a necessary causal relationship to cognition.
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's Abhidharma analysis distinguishes dharmas by their causal roles, requiring causes to precede effects by at least one moment.
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    • 2.If internal aspects and cognition arise simultaneously, neither can serve as the causal basis for the other, violating the asymmetry required for kāryakāraṇabhāva.
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    • 3.Simultaneity collapses the explanatory distinction between cognitive basis and cognition, rendering the causal relation vacuous.
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    • 1.Dharmakīrti's theory of svalakṣaṇa holds that genuine causal efficacy (arthakriyāśakti) requires temporal succession, not co-presence.
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    • 2.An internal aspect simultaneous with cognition cannot differentially explain why that specific cognition arises rather than another, undermining its role as a discriminating condition.
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    In his Investigation of the Cognitive Support Dignāga takes up, as the title suggests, one of the specific issue debated by Vasubandhu in his Twenty Verses: what exactly should count as an object of cognition? Dignāga's definition of the cognitive support invokes the principle of the concomitance of cause and effect (kāryakāraṇabhāva). Thus, for an object to count as a support (ālambana) for cognitive awareness it must (i) produce a cognition, and (ii) that cognition must take the form of the ob
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