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Taking Conventional Truth Seriously: Authority Regarding Deceptive Reality
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 60, Number 3, July 2010
- pp. 341-354
- 10.1353/pew.0.0113
- Article
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Mādhyamika philosophers in India and Tibet distinguish between two truths: the conventional and the ultimate. It is difficult, however, to say in what sense conventional truth is indeed a truth, as opposed to falsehood. Indeed, many passages in prominent texts suggest that it is entirely false. It is explained here in the sense in which, for Candrakīrti and Tsong khapa, conventional truth is truth.