Vasubandhu's Abhidharma analysis shows that putative wholes reduce without remainder to momentary dharmas, leaving no substrate in which plural characteristics could inhere as one.
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(How Vasubandhu explains the relationship between objects and dharmas)
To break something down completely into smaller pieces with nothing left over—like showing a complex thing is really just a collection of simpler things.
Substrate(as the underlying physical foundation being discussed)
The physical stuff or material that something is made of or runs on; in this case, the brain as the physical basis for mental states.
Vasubandhu(the subject of the argument being discussed)
An ancient Indian Buddhist philosopher (around 4th-5th century) who developed sophisticated theories about the mind and reality, particularly the idea that everything we experience might be mental constructs rather than external objects.
dharmas(Buddhist Abhidharma philosophy)
The constituent elements or phenomena of experience, enumerated in Buddhist Abhidharma literature; categorized as either conditioned (arising from causes and having effects) or unconditioned (having no cause and no effect)