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    It is not the case that Mereological eliminativism, defended by thinkers like Vasubandhu in his Abhidharma phase, entails that dharmas—not mental continuants—are the irreducible causal relata.

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    • 1.Dharmas cannot explain mental continuity needed for moral responsibility, karma accumulation, and epistemic memory across time.
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    • 2.The claim that only dharmas are real causal relata paradoxically requires dharma-composites to generate emergent causal patterns we observe.
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    • 3.If dharmas are truly irreducible causal relata, their constant flux makes stable causal laws impossible—undermining the view itself.
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    • 1.Dharmas exhibit genuine causal powers that persist across moments, while composite entities like persons lack intrinsic causal efficacy.
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    • 2.Positing irreducible persons commits us to problematic metaphysical entities unexplained by fundamental physics or phenomenology.
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    • 3.Empirical investigation reveals only momentary dharmic events; persons are post-hoc conceptual constructs without experiential basis.
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