Denying the intrinsic reality of things at the convention... — Carmelics

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Denying the intrinsic reality of things at the conventional level entails denying their conventional existence.

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1.Conventional existence is constituted by things having intrinsic and unique particulars (svalakṣaṇa).
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2.Removing the defining characteristic of a thing removes the basis for positing that thing's existence.
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1.Candrakīrti distinguishes nominal existence (prajñapti-sat) from intrinsic existence (svabhāva-sat), such that the former requires no grounding in the latter.
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2.Conventional things can exist dependently through causal efficacy and conceptual designation without possessing any intrinsic nature that underwrites their identity.
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3.Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā explicitly argues that emptiness of intrinsic nature is itself the condition for dependent origination, not its negation.
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