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abh-self-grounding-two-aspects
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{
"question_id": "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
"source_role": "abh-self-grounding",
"tradition": "trika_pratyabhijna",
"central_reading": "Abhinavagupta argues the two-aspect structure is self-grounding (TĀ 4/9, TĀ 4/185cd-186ab). The Heart/vimarśa is the foundation of consciousness itself — not a separate prior substrate. Both Dignāga and Abhinavagupta agree the structure is self-grounding; they disagree on what does the grounding.",
"claims": [
{
"id": "cl:abh-ta4-9-self-grounding",
"text": "TĀ 4/9: consciousness is by its very nature full (nirbharā), with nothing to subtract or add. There is nothing separate from it on which it depends. The two-aspect structure does not require an external ground — it is self-grounding through the Heart (vimarśa) which is the foundation (pratiṣṭhā) of consciousness itself.",
"source_id": "text:tantraloka-ahnika4",
"source_span": "Tantrāloka 4/9 and 4/185cd-186ab, ahnika-04.txt lines 359-367 and 11146-11165",
"evidence": "textual",
"pramana": "sabda",
"hetu": "consciousness is svātmasaṃvitti, full in itself, depending on nothing",
"sadhya": "the two-aspect structure is self-grounding through vimarśa, not through a separate prior consciousness",
"vyapti": "If consciousness needs nothing outside itself and its foundation is the Heart, then the ground is internal to the structure.",
"vyapti_confidence": 0.82,
"falsifier": "Show that Abhinavagupta posits Anuttara as a genuinely separate ontological ground beyond the two-aspect structure, not as the same reality under a different aspect.",
"weight": 0.46,
"w_rel": 0.8,
"w_map": 0.75,
"w_aux": 0.78,
"targets": [
{
"id": "cand:abh-vimarsa-intrinsic",
"type": "candidate_explanation",
"role": "support",
"strength": 0.8,
"rationale": "Abhinavagupta's position is self-grounding, not dependent on an external substrate."
},
{
"id": "cand:dharmakirti-conditioned-reflexivity",
"type": "candidate_explanation",
"role": "attack",
"strength": 0.45,
"rationale": "Both traditions say the structure is self-grounding; the difference is where they locate the self-grounding principle."
}
]
}
]
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