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    It is not the case that Vasubandhu's own Abhidharma framework requires that cognitive episodes be causally grounded in appropriately proximate external conditions (ālambana-pratyaya), not merely simultaneous internal correlates.

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    • 1.Vasubandhu acknowledges dream and illusion cognitions with absent or distorted objects, undermining the necessity of appropriately proximate externals.
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    • 2.The Abhidharma framework treats ālambana functionally as representational content, not requiring metaphysically independent external particulars.
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    • 3.Internal correlates (skandhas, dhātus) in Vasubandhu's system exhaustively constitute experience; external conditions may merely be conceptual impositions.
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    • 1.Vasubandhu explicitly defines ālambana-pratyaya as the object condition that cognition depends upon, logically requiring external reference.
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    • 2.Internal correlates alone cannot explain why cognitions of different objects arise—only external conditions differentiate cognitive content.
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    • 3.Vasubandhu's causal realism about pratyaya prevents reducing cognition to epiphenomenal products of internal states sans worldly grounding.
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