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q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed.abh-crystal-refutes-map
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"question_id": "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
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"central_reading": "The crystal argument (without vimarśa, consciousness is insentient like a crystal) applies to any account that treats self-awareness as derivative — including the Buddhist svasaṃvitti phala-model. If self-awareness is a result of cognition, it can be absent when cognition is absent; but consciousness cannot be absent from itself.",
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"quoted_anchor": "Without vimarśa, consciousness would be insentient, like a crystal",
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"evidence_dimension": "textual",
"pramana": "anumana",
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"paksa": "the crystal argument refutes any derivat",
"hetu": "if self-awareness is produced by cognition, then before cognition there is no self-awareness",
"sadhya": "the crystal argument refutes any derivative account of self-awareness, including svasaṃvitti phala-model",
"vyapti": "If consciousness cannot be insentient at any moment, self-awareness must be intr"
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],
"gate_outcome": "accepted",
"fallacies_flagged": [],
"falsifier": "Show that the Buddhist phala-model does not imply periods without self-awareness — i.e., that cognition is continuous and self-awareness is co-extensive with it, making the result-as-nature distinction merely verbal."
}
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"relation_rationale": "Extends crystal argument to explicitly cover the Buddhist phala-model."
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"relation_rationale": "If crystal argument refutes the phala-model, the Buddhist response needs a different account of self-awareness."
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"relation_rationale": "Narrows the crux: the question becomes whether any derivative account of self-awareness is coherent."
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"current_best_answer": "The crystal argument (without vimarśa, consciousness is insentient like a crystal) applies to any account that treats self-awareness as derivative — including the Buddhist svasaṃvitti phala-model. If self-awareness is a result of cognition, it can be absent when cognition is absent; but consciousness cannot be absent from itself.",
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