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According to Gelug Prasangika, a conventionally existent phenomenon (tha-snyad-du yod-pa) is a validly knowable phenomenon, the existence of which is established by its being merely the referent object (btags-chos) of the name, label, or concept for it.
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In technical terms, as imputations, self-images refer to something (btags-chos), but what they refer to does not correspond to the unimputedly existent objects that the imputations conceptually imply (zhen-yul).
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The “referent object” (btags-chos) is that to which the mental label refers on this basis – in other words, the actual “not-yet-happening.”
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Is there a specific validly knowable object “yoghurt in the pot,” or some aspect or individual defining characteristic mark (mtshan-nyid) of such yoghurt, that exists and in some way endures through the future, present, and past as a findable referent “thing” (btags-don) corresponding to the conception of “yoghurt in the pot”?
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This means that when valid cognition scrutinizes the superficial truth of something, it finds, on the side of the scrutinized phenomena, the referent “thing” (btags-don) corresponding to the name or label for the phenomenon.
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It is devoid of being established as a “referent thing” (btags-don) findable on the side of its basis for labeling.
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More fully, they exist as merely what the words and concepts for them refer to (btags-chos), based merely on a valid imputation of them on a valid basis for labeling (gdags-gzhi).
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Imputedly knowable phenomena (btags-yod) are validly knowable phenomena that, when cognized, do not rely on actual cognition of something else.
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The phrase not-yet-happening is the mental label (btags).
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Its existence as a validly knowable phenomenon is established there, from its own side, by its being a findable “referent thing” (btags-don), corresponding to the name for it.
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