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    It is not the case that The appearance of an internally cognizable aspect, not an external object, is the actual 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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    • 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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