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"packet_id": "ip:nanavira-fundamental-structure-reflexivity",
"schema_version": 2,
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"source": {
"so_id": "so:nanavira-fundamental-structure",
"title": "Fundamental Structure (I. Static Aspect, II. Dynamic Aspect)",
"author": "Ñāṇavīra Thera",
"source_dir": "content/source-texts/nanavira-fundamental-structure",
"tradition_scope": "nanavira_phenomenology"
},
"target_question_id": "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
"extracted_by": "codex",
"extracted_at": "2026-07-26",
"status": "draft_reviewed",
"claims": [
{
"claim_id": "cl:nanavira-difference-defines-thing",
"source_type": "source_text",
"source_id": "so:nanavira-fundamental-structure",
"source_span": {
"file": "static-aspect.txt",
"locator": "paragraph 6",
"quote": "two things define a thing, namely the difference between them"
},
"claim_text": "A thing is defined by the difference between two things; identity is structurally dependent on contrast rather than a hidden substrate.",
"targets": [
{
"target_id": "cand:nanavira-structural-reflexivity",
"target_type": "candidate_explanation"
},
{
"target_id": "crux:no-self-target",
"target_type": "crux"
}
],
"tradition_scope": "nanavira_phenomenology",
"paradigm": "nanavira_phenomenology",
"evidence_dimension": "phenomenological",
"pramana": "anumana",
"nn_expr": "vyāpti(difference,determination)",
"hetu": "difference is required to distinguish two things",
"sadhya": "identity is structurally determined by contrast",
"vyapti_statement": "If a thing is identifiable only through difference from another thing, then identity is contrast-structured rather than substance-grounded.",
"vyapti_confidence": 0.78,
"log_bayes_factor": 0.45,
"w_rel": 0.85,
"w_map": 0.72,
"w_aux": 0.65,
"falsifier": {
"type": "formal",
"condition": "Give a coherent account in which a thing is determinate without contrast, priority, exclusion, relation, or any equivalent differentiating condition.",
"status": "untested"
},
"reasoning": "This is Nanavira's base structural claim. It directly supports the no-hidden-substance side of the reflexivity dossier while remaining narrower than a full Buddhist apoha theory."
},
{
"claim_id": "cl:nanavira-difference-as-transformation-operation",
"source_type": "source_text",
"source_id": "so:nanavira-fundamental-structure",
"source_span": {
"file": "static-aspect.txt",
"locator": "paragraph 6",
"quote": "the difference between them, clearly, is what has to be done to pass from one to the other, or the operation of transforming one into the other"
},
"claim_text": "Difference is an operation of transformation or interchange between terms, not a static property merely attached to one term.",
"targets": [
{
"target_id": "cand:nanavira-structural-reflexivity",
"target_type": "candidate_explanation"
},
{
"target_id": "crux:constructed-reflexivity-presupposes-manifestness",
"target_type": "crux"
}
],
"tradition_scope": "nanavira_phenomenology",
"paradigm": "nanavira_phenomenology",
"evidence_dimension": "phenomenological",
"pramana": "anumana",
"nn_expr": "sambandha(difference,transformation)",
"hetu": "difference is what must be done to pass from one term to another",
"sadhya": "difference has operational structure",
"vyapti_statement": "If difference is the passage or interchange between terms, then difference should be modeled as a relation/operation rather than an intrinsic isolated property.",
"vyapti_confidence": 0.74,
"log_bayes_factor": 0.4,
"w_rel": 0.8,
"w_map": 0.7,
"w_aux": 0.65,
"falsifier": {
"type": "formal",
"condition": "Show that Nanavira's transformation reading is eliminable while preserving his distinction between one thing and two things.",
"status": "untested"
},
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