Abhinavagupta: self-awareness is nature of consciousness, not result of cognition

{
 "question_id": "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
 "source_role": "abh-svasamvedana-nature",
 "title": "Abhinavagupta: self-awareness is nature of consciousness, not result of cognition",
 "tradition": "trika_pratyabhijna",
 "central_reading": "Self-awareness is the nature (svabhāva) of consciousness, not a result (phala) of cognition. The Buddhist svasaṃvitti doctrine treats self-awareness as the result of cognition; Abhinavagupta argues this makes it derivative rather than intrinsic.",
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "cl:abh-svasamvedana-nature-not-phala",
   "text": "Self-awareness (svasaṃvedana) is the nature (svabhāva) of consciousness, not a result (phala) of cognition. Consciousness is self-luminous (svaprakāśa) and is its own object of awareness; it is not an object of a means of knowledge other than its own self-awareness. The Buddhist phala-model makes self-awareness dependent on cognition, contradicting its self-luminous nature.",
   "source_id": "text:tantraloka-ahnika1",
   "source_span": "Tantrāloka 1, commentary on verse 59-60 (ahnika-01.txt:7739-7745)",
   "quote": "svasaṁvedyaṁ svaprakāśam na tu svasaṁvedanānyapramāṇaprameyam",
   "evidence": "textual",
   "pramana": "sabda",
   "hetu": "consciousness is self-luminous and its own object, not dependent on external means of knowledge",
   "sadhya": "self-awareness is the nature of consciousness, not a produced result",
   "vyapti": "If consciousness is self-luminous and self-aware by nature, then self-awareness is its svabhāva, not a phala of cognition.",
   "vyapti_confidence": 0.8,
   "falsifier": "Show that the Buddhist phala-model of svasaṃvitti is compatible with svaprakāśa — that a result-of-cognition can also be the nature of consciousness without contradiction.",
   "falsifier_status": "untested",
   "weight": 0.42,
   "w_rel": 0.78,
   "w_map": 0.72,
   "w_aux": 0.74,
   "targets": [
    {
     "id": "cand:abh-vimarsa-intrinsic",
     "type": "candidate_explanation",
     "role": "support",
     "strength": 0.75,
     "rationale": "Direct textual evidence distinguishing svabhāva from phala models."
    },
    {
     "id": "cand:dharmakirti-conditioned-reflexivity",
     "type": "candidate_explanation",
     "role": "attack",
     "strength": 0.55,
     "rationale": "The Buddhist phala-model makes self-awareness derivative."
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}