If phenomena wholly lacked intrinsic reality, causal efficacy would be indeterminate, rendering the Buddhist epistemological project of distinguishing valid from invalid cognition incoherent.
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A reliable way of knowing or understanding something that actually gives you true knowledge, rather than mistaken belief.
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
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
intrinsic reality(Buddhist metaphysics)
A property of phenomena whereby they would possess a singular or plural identity in and of themselves
phenomena(Distinguished from data in the context of scientific explanation)
The targets of scientific learning, inferred from data rather than identical to data itself