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    It is not the case that The denial of present time leads to the absurd consequence that nothing can be known perceptually

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    • 1.Perception functions in the present
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    • 2.If there is no present time, perception has no temporal basis in which to operate
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    • 3.If perception cannot operate, nothing can be known perceptually
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    • 1.Dignāga's pramāṇa theory holds that perceptual knowledge (pratyakṣa) requires a determinate object existing at the moment of cognition.
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    • 2.Dharmakīrti's apoha doctrine confirms that even conceptual overlays on perception presuppose a causally efficacious present-moment particular (svalakṣaṇa).
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    • 3.If no present moment exists, the svalakṣaṇa has no temporal locus, eliminating the causal grounding that distinguishes genuine perception from mere imagination.
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    • 1.Nyāya epistemology (Gautama, Nyāya-Sūtra 1.1.4) defines perception as the non-deviant cognition arising from direct contact between sense organ and object.
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    • 2.Direct contact between sense organ and object is only coherent if both relata co-exist within a shared temporal interval, i.e., the present.
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    • 3.Denying present time dissolves the co-existence condition, making the defining criterion of perception logically unsatisfiable and perceptual knowledge impossible.
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