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    It is not the case that No essence or independent self can be found in any phenomenon or its constituents

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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