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    Challenges→Phenomena that appear to be real external objects (such as a blue-patch) are not distinct from the phenomenological experience of those objects

    Yogacara's vijnanavada therefore substitutes one form of reification (material objects) for another (pure consciousness), violating the two-truths framework it claims to uphold.

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    • 1.If consciousness is posited as ultimately real and independent, it reifies consciousness just as materialism reifies objects.
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    • 2.The two-truths framework requires neither conventional nor ultimate reality to be intrinsically existent; Yogacara treats mind as intrinsically real.
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    • 3.Substituting one reified category for another fails to deconstruct reification itself, merely reversing the error.
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    • 1.Yogacara explicitly denies consciousness has intrinsic nature; it's empty of independent essence—not a reified ultimate.
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    • 2.Vijnanavada operates at conventional level to explain experience; ultimate reality remains beyond conceptual frameworks for both.
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    • 3.Rejecting external objects while deconstructing subject-object duality differs categorically from asserting consciousness as foundational.
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