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    Challenges→The Dharmadhātu is completely devoid of evil and virtue.

    If the Dharmadhātu lacks substantial existence, the claim that it is 'devoid of evil and virtue' attributes a real property to a non-entity, which is itself a category error the Prāsaṅgika school explicitly rejects.

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    Category error(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
    A logical mistake where you apply a rule or concept to something it doesn't actually fit, like using a math formula on a poem.
    Devoid of evil and virtue(as used in ethics and Buddhist philosophy)
    Completely lacking moral qualities—neither good nor bad, like saying a rock has no morality.
    Dharmadhātu(Contrasted with the conditioned realm of karma; literally 'inconsequential' in that it has no consequences.)
    The Realm of Reality; the unconditioned, actionless ultimate reality that produces no causal results.
    Prāsaṅgika school(as used in Buddhist philosophy and metaphysics)
    A major school of Buddhist philosophy (especially Tibetan Buddhism) that argues reality is ultimately empty of independent existence and is skeptical of making positive claims about what things are.

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    Substantial existence(as used in ontology (the study of what exists))
    The idea that something has real, independent, permanent being on its own—not just existing as a concept or in relation to other things.

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