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    The Abhidharma Buddhist account of a person as a mere agg... — Carmelics
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    The Abhidharma Buddhist account of a person as a mere aggregate of experiences cannot adequately account for trans-modality judgements.

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    • 1.Udayana's Nyāyakusumāñjali argues that cross-modal synthesis requires a single persistent cognizer that 'owns' perceptions across different sense organs.
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    • 2.The Abhidharma doctrine of momentary mental dharmas (cittā) entails that each sensory event is numerically distinct, with no enduring substrate to bind them.
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    • 3.A binding relation between numerically distinct momentary dharmas cannot itself be a further momentary dharma without generating an infinite regress of binding relations.
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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Pure Reason establishes that the unity of apperception—'I think' accompanying all representations—is a necessary condition for any comparative judgment across representations.
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    • 2.The Abhidharma reduction of persons to skandhas explicitly denies any functional analog to transcendental apperception, leaving no locus for the 'accompanying' unification Kant identifies.
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    • 3.Vasubandhu's own Abhidharmakośa concedes that manas (the mental sense-faculty) processes outputs of other faculties, but this presupposes a coordinating function that skandha-bundle ontology cannot ground without circularity.
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    • 1.The Abhidharma Buddhist holds that a person is nothing more than an aggregate of experiences (visual, tactile, etc.).
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    • 2.Trans-modality judgements comparing the deliverances of different sense-faculties are possible.
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    • 3.Such judgements cannot be attributed to any single experiential component within the aggregate.
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    The idea here is that the possibility of recognitive experience presupposes the existence of a unitary enduring self. There are really two arguments compressed here. One is this: I cannot remember an object unless I have seen it earlier—I cannot remember what you have seen (cf. Locke’s account of personal identity in terms of a continuity of memory experiences). The other argument is more intricate. The Abhidharma Buddhist claims that a person is just an aggregate of experiences, some visual, so
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