  (2) The substratum of beliefs etc. is the person’s sense-faculties [recall that every physical substance was divided into three: pertaining to body, sense-faculty, and (inanimate) object]. This rather strange claim might be taken to include the view of the Buddhists, that a person is reducible to a stream of momentary mental events, including sense-data etc. The Manual of Reason’s argument against such a view (a repetition of an argument already found in the Nyāya-sutra) is a strong one: