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    It is not the case that The false view that objectifies the five aggregates as a real self (satkāyadṛṣṭi) gives rise to all afflictive defilements and suffering.

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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that denying a substantial self does not eliminate afflictive passions such as pride, resentment, or grief.
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    • 2.If suffering persists even after intellectually accepting no-self, satkāyadṛṣṭi cannot be the sole or sufficient cause of all afflictive defilements.
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    • 3.This suggests defilements have causal roots independent of self-misidentification, such as habitual conditioning or biological drives.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionism accepts that persons are just collections of physical and mental events, yet he acknowledges that this view alone does not dissolve experienced suffering.
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    • 2.The causal claim that a single cognitive error grounds all afflictions conflates the epistemic source of suffering with its full causal explanation.
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    • 3.Emotional defilements in Stoic and Aristotelian accounts arise from disordered evaluative judgments that are not reducible to one misidentification of a self-aggregate.
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    • 1.The five aggregates are the objective domain of the arising of defilements.
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    • 2.Falsely identifying the aggregates as self constitutes the view known as satkāyadṛṣṭi.
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    • 3.Satkāyadṛṣṭi leads to the arising of all afflictive defilements.
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