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    The appearance of phenomena depends upon empirical awaren... — Carmelics
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    The appearance of phenomena depends upon empirical awareness (vijñāna), while consciousness itself arises in dependence upon the sense organ and the physical object.

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    • 1.In the formula of dependent arising, consciousness is said to arise in dependence upon the sense organ and the physical object.
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    • 2.The appearance of phenomena itself depends in turn upon empirical awareness.
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's Yogācāra holds that vijñāna is not conditioned by external objects but constitutes the very appearance of objects through ālayavijñāna.
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    • 2.If consciousness itself generates the phenomenal field, positing an independent physical object as a causal condition introduces an explanatorily superfluous external term.
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    • 3.The Abhidharma formula of sense-organ plus object conditioning consciousness thus presupposes a realist ontology that Yogācāra idealism systematically dismantles.
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    • 1.Dignāga argues that the object of perceptual awareness is the svalakṣaṇa (particular), which is causally efficacious but never directly represented in conceptually structured experience.
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    • 2.If consciousness arises dependently from a physical object it cannot cognize, then the claim that appearances depend on empirical awareness conflates causal genesis with intentional content.
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    • 3.This renders the dependency relation equivocal between causal conditioning and phenomenal constitution, undermining the claim's coherence as a unified account of perception.
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    Now, in the canonical literature consciousness (vijñāna) is treated as a synonym of apperception (saṃjñā) [see Sutta Nipata, 538, 806]. This lack of clear dissociation between apperception, understood here as the empirical apprehension of phenomena, and consciousness as the apprehending faculty, is made obvious by frequent references to saṃjñā as being the cause of attachment to agreeable physical objects and mental states. Furthermore, apperception is often contrasted with wisdom thus
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