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    Challenges→There must be an eternal intelligence realized in the related facts of the world that partially reproduces itself in individual human minds.

    The inference from 'order exceeds individual constitution' to 'a greater mind constitutes it' commits the composition fallacy: collective emergence need not entail a collective constituting subject.

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    Key Terms

    Collective emergence(describing how organized systems can appear from simpler components)
    When a new property or phenomenon arises from many individual things working together, but that new thing is different from what any single part could create alone.
    Composition fallacy(logic)
    A logical mistake where you assume that because something is true of each individual part, it must also be true of the whole—like saying if each person is short, the group must be short.
    Constitute / Constituting subject(referring to whether a single intelligence designed or organized the order we see)
    To constitute something means to make it or form it; a constituting subject is a mind or conscious being that actively creates or organizes something into existence.
    Entail(In logical reasoning and argumentation)
    To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?

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    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known

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