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    Mental content can arise at a specific time and place without correspondence to external objects

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    • 1.Dream objects appear as having determined spatio-temporal coordinates
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    • 2.Dream objects have no correspondence to external realities
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    • 3.Dream objects arise in dependence upon the transformation of residual impressions (vāsanās)
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    • 1.Dream states are neurologically dependent on prior waking perceptual contact with external objects, providing an indirect causal link to external reality.
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    • 2.The vāsanā mechanism itself requires an initial veridical perceptual input, meaning mental content ultimately traces back to external object correspondence.
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    • 3.A causal chain grounded in prior external contact is sufficient to establish that mental content does not arise independently of external objects.
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    • 1.Dignāga's apoha theory and the Nyāya realist tradition both argue that determinate spatio-temporal content presupposes a real structural feature of the world that anchors such representations.
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    • 2.Spatio-temporal determinacy in experience is not explicable by internal transformation alone, since the very categories of 'time' and 'place' are abstracted from mind-independent regularities per Kant's empirical realism.
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    In the Twenty Verses, Vasubandhu offers an elaborate defense of idealism. His arguments may be summarized as follows: Because non-existing entities can be consciously apprehended, consciousness must have ontological priority (VVS I, 1). The typical realist objection to an assertion of this sort concerns the causal function of perception: indeed, if mental content can be said to consciously arise without any reference to external objects, then why does it arise at a specific time and place and no
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