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

    Things that are grasped as intrinsically real are conventionally real for those who grasp them as such

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    In order to illustrate this distinction, in his commentary [MBh] 6.28 Candrakīrti introduces the concept: mere convention (kun rdzob tsam) of the noble beings to contrast with conventionally real or conventional true (kun rdzob bden pa) of the ordinary beings. Ordinary beings erroneously grasp all conditioned phenomena as intrinsically real, therefore things are conventionally real and thus are categories of conventional truth. For noble beings, however, because they no longer reify them as real

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