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    The appearance of an internally cognizable aspect, not an... — Carmelics
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    The appearance of an internally cognizable aspect, not an external object, is the actual cognitive support.

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    • 1.Internal aspects arise simultaneously with the cognitions they ground, satisfying the concomitance condition.
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    • 2.The Yogācāra theory of mental aspects demonstrates that it is the internally cognizable aspect, not any external entity, that gives cognition its form.
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    • 3.Whatever satisfies both conditions of the concomitance criterion is the true cognitive support.
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    • 1.Dignāga's own apoha theory presupposes that cognition tracks external exclusions, implying external objects constrain cognitive content from outside.
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    • 2.If internal aspects were the sole cognitive support, successful perceptual discrimination of distinct external particulars would be inexplicable without ad hoc stipulation.
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    • 3.A theory of cognition that cannot account for the causal asymmetry between world and mind undermines the very epistemic reliability Yogācāra practitioners claim for valid cognition (pramāṇa).
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's own Abhidharma framework requires that cognitive episodes be causally grounded in appropriately proximate external conditions (ālambana-pratyaya), not merely simultaneous internal correlates.
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    • 2.Simultaneity alone fails to establish cognitive support because two unrelated simultaneous mental events satisfy concomitance without one grounding the other.
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    In his Investigation of the Cognitive Support Dignāga takes up, as the title suggests, one of the specific issue debated by Vasubandhu in his Twenty Verses: what exactly should count as an object of cognition? Dignāga's definition of the cognitive support invokes the principle of the concomitance of cause and effect (kāryakāraṇabhāva). Thus, for an object to count as a support (ālambana) for cognitive awareness it must (i) produce a cognition, and (ii) that cognition must take the form of the ob
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