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Argument from the untenability of antithetical notion (i.e. effect)
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Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā of Nāgārjuna
Piṅgala's Commentary on Nāgārjuna's Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā, section
mūlamadhyamakakārikā, section
Mūlamadhyamakavṛtti-akutobhayā of Nāgārjuna, section
Buddhapālita-mūlamadhyamakavṛtti of Buddhapālita, section
Sthiramati's Commentary on Nāgārjuna's Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā, section
Prasannapadā of Candrakīrtī, section
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- Effects do not pre-exist in their conditions
- Effects that do not pre-exist in their conditions cannot arise from them
- Effects cannot be both pre-existent and non-pre-existent
- Effects neither pre-exist nor not pre-exist in conditions
- Conditions cannot constitute the essence of their effects
- If effects do arise from conditions, the conditions are then without self-nature
- As effects do not exists, so conditions too