If the two-truths doctrine allows conventional language to gesture toward ultimate reality without distortion invalidating the gesture, then human comprehension is not categorically blocked from Pure Land truth.
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conventional language(Used by the Buddha to communicate with ordinary people without metaphysical commitment to the presuppositions the language superficially implies)
Language that employs pronouns and constructions (such as 'I', 'you', 'self') whose use does not entail that those words have referents in reality.
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
ultimate reality(Bradley 1893: 136 [1897: 120])
That which does not contradict itself; the standard of non-contradiction serves as an absolute criterion for what qualifies as ultimately real.