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q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed.abh-accepts-apoha-map
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"central_reading": "Abhinavagupta does not reject apoha outright — he accepts it as a valid cognitive method but recontextualizes it within the Pratyabhijñā framework of progressive manifestation. The difference: Buddhist apoha determines by exclusion (what X is not); Pratyabhijñā determines by progressive manifestation of qualities (what X IS).",
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"quoted_anchor": "accepted by various schools of Indian philosophy beginning with its initial major formulation by the Buddhist idealist Diṅnāga",
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"paksa": "the Trika and Buddhist positions may be ",
"hetu": "Abhinavagupta explicitly cites Dignāga's apoha and accepts it as a method while recontextualizing it",
"sadhya": "the Trika and Buddhist positions may be complementary rather than contradictory at the epistemological level",
"vyapti": "If Abhinavagupta explicitly accepts apoha as valid while reinterpreting it, then"
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"falsifier": "Show that Abhinavagupta's 'acceptance' of apoha is merely rhetorical and that he ultimately rejects its validity for determining the nature of consciousness itself — i.e., that the recontextualization is actually a refutation."
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"relation_rationale": "If Abhinavagupta accepts apoha's validity within limits, the Buddhist response must address the recontextualization, not just assert svasaṃvitti."
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"current_best_answer": "Abhinavagupta does not reject apoha outright — he accepts it as a valid cognitive method but recontextualizes it within the Pratyabhijñā framework of progressive manifestation. The difference: Buddhist apoha determines by exclusion (what X is not); Pratyabhijñā determines by progressive manifestation of qualities (what X IS).",
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