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    It is not the case that Conditioned phenomena are conventionally real (categories of conventional truth) for ordinary beings

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    • 1.Dignāga and Dharmakīrti hold that only causally efficacious particulars (svalakṣaṇa) are real; universals and conditioned constructs lack this efficacy.
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    • 2.If conventional reality is grounded in erroneous grasping rather than causal efficacy, the two-truths doctrine collapses into a form of anti-realism Dharmakīrti explicitly rejected.
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    • 3.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Erroneous grasping cannot confer ontological status, however conventional, without a mind-independent basis to ground the error itself.
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    • 2.Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā requires that conventional truths function reliably in worldly transactions, which mere error-based grasping cannot guarantee.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Ordinary beings erroneously grasp all conditioned phenomena as intrinsically real
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    • 2.Things that are grasped as intrinsically real are conventionally real for those who grasp them as such
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