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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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