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    It is not the case that Internal aspects that provide a basis for cognition arise simultaneously with cognition itself.

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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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    • 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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