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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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.