Fallacious cognitive processes arising from defective sense faculties of both ordinary and awakened beings do not satisfy the epistemic standard of mundane convention

Candrakīrti’s key argument behind to support the distinction between two mundane epistemic practices—one mundane convention and the other non-mundane convention—is that the former is, for mundane standard, epistemically reliable whereas the latter is epistemically unreliable. Consequently correct cognitive processes of both ordinary and awakened beings satisfy the epistemic standard of mundane convention, being non-deceptive by mundane standard, thus they set the standard of mundane convention;