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    Conventional things can exist dependently through causal ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Denying the intrinsic reality of things at the conventional level entails denying their conventional existence.

    Conventional things can exist dependently through causal efficacy and conceptual designation without possessing any intrinsic nature that underwrites their identity.

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    • 1.Objects like currency and nations persist only through collective agreement and causal roles, not fixed essences.
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    • 2.Identity conditions for conventional things are mind-dependent and revisable without logical contradiction or loss of existence.
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    • 3.If intrinsic natures were required for identity, infinite regress arises in explaining what grounds those natures themselves.
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    • 1.Causal efficacy itself requires stable properties; dependence on causation presupposes some intrinsic nature enabling causal power.
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    • 2.Conceptual designation alone cannot create existence; thoughts about tables don't make tables exist without underlying physical constituents.
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    • 3.The claim conflates epistemic accessibility with metaphysical structure—conventional things may still possess intrinsic natures we access indirectly.
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