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    Supports→Abstract objects posited by Mīmāṃsā linguistic realism do not really exist

    Mīmāṃsā sphoṭa and universal-word entities (ākṛti) are posited precisely to ground linguistic knowledge, yet resist any epistemic access pathway.

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    • 1.Sphoṭa must be posited as a unified meaning-bearer transcending phonetic sequences to explain how diverse utterances convey identical meanings.
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    • 2.Epistemic inaccessibility is coherent: sphoṭa grounds knowledge-production without requiring direct perception, like magnetic fields explain phenomena.
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    • 3.Ākṛti's resistance to access protects it from the infinite regress problem—if universals were directly knowable, knowledge would require further epistemic justification.
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    • 1.Positing entities that resist all epistemic access violates parsimony—why posit what cannot be known rather than explaining meaning through usage patterns?
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    • 2.The claim creates a performative paradox: asserting sphoṭa's explanatory role requires epistemic access to that very role, which the view denies possible.
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    • 3.Alternative frameworks (Wittgenstein's use-theory, Bhartṛhari's dynamic sphoṭa) explain linguistic knowledge without positing fundamentally inaccessible entities.
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