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    It is not the case that The Nyāya inference that the world has an agent as an instrumental cause is defeated by the upādhi having-a-perceptible-body

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    • 1.An upādhi defeats an inference when it pervades the probandum while failing to pervade the prover
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    • 2.Having-a-perceptible-body pervades having-an-agent-as-an-instrumental-cause: all agents have perceptible bodies
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    • 3.Growing grass is an effect (instance of the prover, being-an-effect) that does not have within its causal complex an agent with a perceptible body
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    • 1.Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi establishes that a genuine upādhi must be established independently of the very inference it purports to defeat.
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    • 2.The claim that all agents have perceptible bodies is itself derived inductively from observed agents, making it epistemically dependent on the same inductive base as the Nyāya inference.
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    • 3.A defeater that borrows its warrant from the inference it attacks commits a circular epistemic fault that disqualifies it as a legitimate upādhi under Navya-Nyāya standards.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Udayana in Nyāyakusumāñjali argues that Īśvara's agency is established through inference to the best explanation of ordered complexity, not by direct perceptual analogy to embodied artisans.
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    • 2.The upādhi having-a-perceptible-body presupposes that pervasion holds between perceptible-bodied agents and effects we observe, but grass-growth already falsifies this universal claim, making the upādhi self-undermining rather than defeating.
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