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{
 "packet_id": "ip:nanavira-fundamental-structure-reflexivity",
 "schema_version": 2,
 "artifact_type": "argument_fabric_claim_packet",
 "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"
   },
   "reas
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