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

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 "question_id": "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
 "source_role": "trika-vimarsa-nature",
 "title": "Abhinavagupta: self-awareness is the nature of consciousness, not the result of cognition",
 "tradition": "trika_pratyabhijna",
 "central_reading": "Abhinavagupta distinguishes his view from the Buddhist svasaṃvitti doctrine: self-awareness is the very nature (svabhāva) of consciousness, not a result (phala) produced by cognition.",
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "cl:abh-svasamvedana-nature",
   "text": "Self-awareness (svasaṃvedana) is the nature (svabhāva) of consciousness, not a result (phala) produced by 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.",
   "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 not dependent on any external means of knowledge",
   "sadhya": "self-awareness is the nature of consciousness, not a result",
   "vyapti": "If consciousness is self-luminous and its own object, then self-awareness is its nature, not a product of cognition.",
   "vyapti_confidence": 0.8,
   "falsifier": "Show that the Buddhist phala model of self-awareness is compatible with consciousness being self-luminous — i.e., that the result-of-cognition account does not undermine intrinsic self-awareness.",
   "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 that svasaṃvedana is svabhāva, not phala."
    },
    {
     "id": "cand:dharmakirti-conditioned-reflexivity",
     "type": "candidate_explanation",
     "role": "attack",
     "strength": 0.55,
     "rationale": "If self-awareness is nature not result, the Buddhist phala model is challenged."
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}