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    Challenges→The dependent nature and the imaginary nature together explain Yogācāra's conventional reality, while the perfect nature explains Yogācāra's conception of ultimate reality.

    A two-truths framework that grounds ultimate reality in a nature-category is therefore self-undermining by Madhyamaka standards, casting doubt on the clean tripartite assignment.

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    • 1.Madhyamaka rejects any ultimate ground that remains conceptually determinate, including 'nature' as a category with intrinsic identity.
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    • 2.Positing 'nature' as ultimate commits the framework to svabhāva (intrinsic nature), which Madhyamaka systematically deconstructs as incoherent.
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    • 3.The two-truths division itself requires that ultimate truth transcend all conceptual categories; grounding it in 'nature' violates this requirement.
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    • 1.'Nature' need not denote intrinsic essence; it can mean dynamic emptiness itself, avoiding the svabhāva trap the critique assumes.
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    • 2.Madhyamaka's two truths legitimately requires some framework distinction; 'nature' as a placeholder avoids neither coherence nor self-reference problems.
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