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    Challenges→Conditioned phenomena are conventionally real (categories of conventional truth) for ordinary beings

    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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    Dharmakīrti(as the originator of the doctrine being discussed)
    An influential Indian Buddhist philosopher from the 7th century CE who developed important theories about how we know things and how the mind works.
    Erroneous grasping(describes a fundamental mistake in how we perceive reality)
    Misunderstanding or incorrectly perceiving how things actually exist; in Buddhist thought, this usually means falsely believing things are solid, permanent, or independent when they're not.
    Two-truths doctrine(an example of Buddhist ideas about reality)
    A Buddhist teaching that reality can be understood in two different ways: the everyday way we normally see things, and a deeper way that reveals how everything is interconnected and doesn't have independent existence.
    anti-realism(Medieval philosophy of universals/relations)
    A minority position in the Latin West, possibly having a foothold in the Arabic-speaking world; its more radical forms were always marginal. Associated with views reportedly held by figures like Auriol, and possibly Gilbert of Poitiers before retraction.

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    causal efficacy(Vaibhāṣika causal theory of cognition)
    The capacity of an object to serve as a real cause, which nonexistent objects are held to lack
    conventional reality(Buddhist two-truths doctrine as invoked by Bhāvaviveka)
    The level of truth at which things are posited in terms of their intrinsic natures and unique particulars (svalakṣaṇa), as distinguished from ultimate reality where things have no intrinsic reality.

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