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    It is not the case that The five aggregates are the primary categories for examining the phenomenal structure of sentient beings.

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    • 1.Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa identifies dharmas—not aggregates—as the primary analytical units of sentient experience.
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    • 2.The five aggregates are derivative groupings of dharmas, making dharmas the more fundamental phenomenal categories.
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    • 3.A classificatory scheme built on derivative categories cannot itself be primary without circularity in the ontological analysis.
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    • 1.Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā argues that positing any fixed categorical scheme as 'primary' reinstates the essentialism the aggregates were meant to dissolve.
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    • 2.If the aggregates are conventionally designated and empty of intrinsic nature, they cannot bear the ontological weight of being a primary explanatory framework.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The five aggregates serve as a phenomenological scheme for examining the nature of human experience.
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    • 2.Human beings construct conceptions of the self based upon different existential experiences within the framework of the five aggregates.
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    • 3.The sense of self develops through the view that objectifies the five aggregates as transient composites (satkāyadṛṣṭi).
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