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    It is not the case that The world is orderly rather than chaotic or arbitrary because living beings share the same karmic histories.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Kant's transcendental idealism grounds world-order in universal cognitive structures (space, time, causality) shared by all rational beings regardless of moral history.
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    • 2.If cognitive architecture alone suffices to explain experiential order, karmic homogeneity becomes an explanatorily redundant posit violating parsimony.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka analysis holds that karmic causation is itself conventionally designated and lacks svabhāva, undermining its capacity to ground any deeper metaphysical order.
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    • 2.A mechanism that is itself empty of intrinsic existence cannot serve as the ultimate explanatory foundation for why the world exhibits regularity rather than chaos.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Shared karmic histories produce homogeneity in how the world is experienced and perceived.
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    • 2.Homogeneity in experience and perception produces an orderly rather than chaotic world.
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