The type of phenomenon that a specific individual item is an instance of, such as "a table" imputed on a specific instance of something having legs and a flat surface. This is equivalent to the conventional identity of something. (1) According to the Gelug presentation, forms of physical phenomena that are imputations on parts that are also forms of physical phenomena. They are knowable non-conceptually by sensory bare cognition. (2) According to the non-Gelug presentation, a static phenomenon knowable only in conceptual cognition.
Tibetan: རིགས་སྤྱི། rigs-spyi
J. Hopkins: Type generality
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