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    It is not the case that The Sautrāntika critic (as reconstructed by Dharmakīrti in Pramāṇavārttika) correctly notes that systematically correlated dream experiences across sentient beings demand a mind-independent explanatory basis that pure vijñāna-streams cannot supply.

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    • 1.Dream correlation could arise from shared karmic conditioning structures that don't require external physical objects.
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    • 2.The premise conflates inter-subjective correlation with mind-independence; shared mental structures suffice for systematic correlation.
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    • 3.Dharmakīrti's reconstruction may misrepresent the Sautrāntika position or impose assumptions foreign to their actual framework.
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    • 1.Systematically correlated dream content across multiple subjects requires causal explanation beyond individual consciousness.
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    • 2.Pure consciousness-streams lack the structural resources to generate lawlike patterns shared among distinct sentient beings.
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    • 3.Mind-independent objects provide the most parsimonious explanation for dream-correlation regularities across populations.
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