Chapter 2: The Warrant for the Definitions¶

[PLANNED] This chapter has not yet been written; what follows is a skeleton. Items may be added or removed, and the order may change.

The legitimacy of the proof: every definition is redeemed verbatim from the opponents' own texts, so the target is one the opponents themselves set up. If an opponent rejects the definitions, the theorem demotes to a conditional.

• The three conditions of intrinsic nature redeemed from MMK 15, and their agreement with Sarvāstivāda usage.
• The two sources of the reality criterion: the Sarvāstivāda test of surviving analysis; Saṅghabhadra's definition by generating cognition.
• The modern control: Westerhoff's chapter on svabhāva (ontological and cognitive dimensions) against D2.
• The conditional fallback, stated formally.