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    No essence or independent self can be found in any phenom... — Carmelics
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    No essence or independent self can be found in any phenomenon or its constituents

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    • 1.All aspects of experience are impermanent, arising and passing away subject to numerous causes and conditions
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    • 2.The increasingly detailed enumerations of dharmas show that no phenomenon or its constituents contain an independent self
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    • 3.Even dharmas categorized as unconditioned are shown to be not-self
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    • 1.The Abhidharma analysis of dharmas presupposes a stable epistemic subject capable of performing the reductive decomposition it claims to undermine.
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    • 2.Candrakīrti and the Prāsaṅgika Mādhyamikas argued that positing intrinsically characterized dharmas merely relocates, rather than eliminates, the problem of essential selfhood.
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    • 3.A reductio that depends on the very cognitive continuity it denies is self-undermining as an account of what grounds the analytical enterprise itself.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental unity of apperception establishes that the 'I think' must be able to accompany all representations as a formal, non-empirical condition of experience.
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    • 2.The Abhidharma conflates the empirical self, which may be reducible to aggregates, with the transcendental subject that is a necessary precondition for any phenomenal decomposition.
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    • 3.Denying the formal unity of consciousness on the basis of its contents commits a category error between what is analyzed and what makes analysis possible.
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    The second, “descriptive” soteriological process involved in the categorization of dharmas reveals the fluid nature of sentient experience and validates the fundamental Buddhist teaching of not-self (Skt., anātman, Pali, anatta). The increasingly detailed enumerations of dharmas demonstrate that no essence or independent self could be found in any phenomenon or its constituents, since all aspects of experience are impermanent, arising and passing away subject to numerous causes and conditions. E
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    The Abhidharma conflates the empirical self, which may be reducible to aggregate...
    The increasingly detailed enumerations of dharmas show that no phenomenon or its...
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