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[Sakavādin:] "Is the person (puggala) designated (paññatti) in dependence upon consciousness (viññāṇa)?"
[Puggalavādin:] "Yes."
[Sakavādin:] "Is an unwholesome (akusala) person designated in dependence upon unwholesome consciousness?"
[Puggalavādin:] "It should not be said thus." …
[Sakavādin:] "Is an unwholesome person designated in dependence upon unwholesome consciousness?"
[Puggalavādin:] "Yes."
[Sakavādin:] "Does unwholesome consciousness have fruit, have result (vipāka), have undesirable fruit, have unlovely fruit, have disagreeable fruit, have unpalatable fruit; does it yield suffering (dukkha), ripen in suffering?"
[Puggalavādin:] "Yes."
[Sakavādin:] "Does the unwholesome person, too, have fruit, have result, have undesirable fruit, have unlovely fruit, have disagreeable fruit, have unpalatable fruit; does he yield suffering, ripen in suffering?"
[Puggalavādin:] "It should not be said thus." …
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.