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    Challenges→Conditioned phenomena are conventionally real (categories of conventional truth) for ordinary beings

    A doctrine requiring ordinary beings' error as the criterion of conventional truth makes conventional truth subject-relative and therefore unable to support inter-subjective epistemic norms.

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    Key Terms

    Doctrine(refers to the teachings being passed down)
    A set of beliefs or principles that a philosopher or group teaches and believes to be true.
    Epistemic norms(as standards that apply to beliefs)
    Rules or standards for what makes a belief reasonable or justified—basically, guidelines for how we *should* believe things.
    Subject-relative(describing whose perspective determines truth)
    Something that depends on or varies based on the individual person experiencing or judging it, rather than being the same for everyone.
    conventional truth(Jñānagarbha's Mādhyamika epistemology; contrasted with the reality disclosed to concept-free awareness)
    The framework of causality, arising, perishing, unity, and multiplicity that is indispensable for ordinary experience but does not correspond to ultimate reality

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    criterion(as used in philosophy to describe a test for whether an idea works)
    A standard or rule used to decide whether something counts as true or valid.
    inter-subjective(describes the relationship between separate individuals)
    Relating to what happens between different people's minds or perspectives; how we connect with and understand each other.

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