Nanavira: consciousness is reflexive presence, not a thing requiring vimarśa

{
 "question_id": "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
 "source_role": "nanavira-presence",
 "title": "Nanavira: consciousness is reflexive presence, not a thing requiring vimarśa",
 "tradition": "nanavira_phenomenology",
 "central_reading": "Nanavira's account treats consciousness as the presence of a phenomenon, reflexively given. The Trika criticism assumes consciousness is a 'thing' needing an extra property (vimarśa), but for Nanavira reflexivity is structural to presence itself.",
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "cl:nanavira-presence-is-reflexive",
   "text": "Consciousness (viññāṇa) is the presence of a phenomenon, and that presence is reflexively given. 'There is eye-consciousness — eye-consciousness is present reflexively.' Consciousness is not an entity or thing that requires an added property (vimarśa) to be sentient. It is the presence-of-phenomena, and presence as such is inherently reflexive. The immediate/reflexive presence distinction shows that reflexivity is built into the structure of experience, not added by a separate principle.",
   "source_id": "text:nanavira-vinnana",
   "source_span": "Notes on Dhamma — Viññāṇa, §d on reflexive presence",
   "quote": "eye-consciousness is present reflexively",
   "evidence": "textual",
   "pramana": "sabda",
   "hetu": "consciousness is presence of phenomena, not an entity; presence is reflexively given",
   "sadhya": "reflexivity is structural to Nanavira's account, not an added property",
   "vyapti": "If consciousness is presence and presence is reflexively given, then reflexivity is built into the structure of experience.",
   "vyapti_confidence": 0.76,
   "falsifier": "Show that Nanavira's 'reflexive presence' is compatible with a purely structural account that lacks sentience — i.e., that presence could be reflexively given without being experienced.",
   "falsifier_status": "untested",
   "weight": 0.38,
   "w_rel": 0.74,
   "w_map": 0.66,
   "w_aux": 0.7,
   "targets": [
    {
     "id": "cand:nanavira-structural-reflexivity",
     "type": "candidate_explanation",
     "role": "support",
     "strength": 0.72,
     "rationale": "Direct account of reflexive presence from primary text."
    },
    {
     "id": "cand:abh-vimarsa-intrinsic",
     "type": "candidate_explanation",
     "role": "attack",
     "strength": 0.48,
     "rationale": "Shows Trika's framing of the issue may misrepresent the Buddhist position."
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}