buddhist-response-crystal-argument-claims

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 "schema_version": 2,
 "artifact_type": "argument_fabric_claim_packet",
 "source": {
  "source_id": "text:buddhist-self-awareness-response",
  "title": "Buddhist response to the crystal argument: cognition is inherently self-manifesting (svaprakāśa/svasaṃvitti)",
  "author": "Dharmakīrti, Dignāga, Ñāṇavīra Thera",
  "external_sources": [
   {
    "source_id": "text:nanavira-vinnana",
    "title": "Notes on Dhamma — Viññāṇa",
    "author": "Ñāṇavīra Thera",
    "source_quality": "primary_text"
   },
   {
    "source_id": "text:dharmakirti-pv3-svasamvitti",
    "title": "Pramāṇavārttika 3 on self-awareness (svasaṃvitti)",
    "author": "Dharmakīrti",
    "source_quality": "primary_text"
   },
   {
    "source_id": "text:coseru-consciousness-causality",
    "title": "Consciousness and Causality: Dharmakīrti Against Physicalism",
    "author": "Christian Coseru",
    "source_quality": "secondary_scholarship"
   }
  ],
  "tradition_scope": "cross_tradition"
 },
 "target_question_id": "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
 "extracted_by": "codex_hermes_loop",
 "extracted_at": "2026-07-26",
 "status": "source_extracted",
 "claims": [
  {
   "claim_id": "cl:buddhist-cognition-is-self-manifesting",
   "source_type": "primary_text",
   "source_id": "text:dharmakirti-pv3-svasamvitti",
   "source_span": {
    "locator": "Pramāṇavārttika 3, cited in Coseru — Dignāga's PS(V) 1.9ab",
    "quote": "Cognition arises actually with two appearances, self-appearance and object-appearance. The self-awareness of this cognition possessing both appearances is the result."
   },
   "claim_text": "The Buddhist epistemological tradition (Dignāga, Dharmakīrti) does NOT claim that determination-by-exclusion alone accounts for consciousness. Rather, every cognition has two appearances: self-appearance (svābhāsa) and object-appearance (viṣayābhāsa). Self-awareness (svasaṃvitti) is the result — cognition is inherently self-manifesting. The crystal argument misfires because it assumes the Buddhist position lacks an account of sentience, when in fact svasaṃvitti (self-awareness of cognition) is a core doctrine of the tradition.",
   "targets": [
    {
     "target_id": "cand:dharmakirti-conditioned-reflexivity",
     "target_type": "candidate_explanation"
    },
    {
     "target_id": "cand:abh-vimarsa-intrinsic",
     "target_type": "candidate_explanation"
    },
    {
     "target_id": "crux:constructed-reflexivity-presupposes-manifestness",
     "target_type": "crux"
    }
   ],
   "tradition_scope": "dharmakirti_buddhist",
   "paradigm": "buddhist_pramana",
   "evidence_dimension": "textual",
   "pramana": "sabda",
   "nn_expr": "prasanga(buddhist_lacks_self_awareness)",
   "hetu": "Dignāga and Dharmakīrti explicitly argue every cognition has self-appearance",
   "sadhya": "the Buddhist tradition has an account of self-awareness distinct from determination-by-exclusion",
   "vyapti_statement": "If cognition has two appearances (self and object), then self-awareness is intrinsic to cognition, not an added extra.",
   "vyapti_confidence": 0.78,
   "log_bayes_factor": 0.4,
   "w_rel": 0.75,
   "w_map": 0.7,
   "w_aux": 0.72,
   "falsifier": {
    "type": "textual",
    "condition": "Show that the Buddhist svasaṃvitti doctrine reduces to determination-by-exclusion with no remainder — i.e., that self-appearance is identical to object-appearance in the Buddhist account.",
    "status": "untested"
   },
   "reasoning": "Direct textual evidence from Dignāga's PS(V) 1.9ab, the foundational text of Buddhist epistemology. Cognition has two distinct appearances — self and object. Self-awareness is not reducible to determination-by-exclusion."
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "cl:nanavira-consciousness-as-presence-reflexive",
   "source_type": "primary_text",
   "source_id": "text:nanavira-vinnana",
   "source_span": {
    "locator": "Notes on Dhamma — Viññāṇa, §d on reflexive presence",
    "quote": "In reflexion, di