 Therefore intrinsic reality is not a conventional reality and grasping things to be intrinsically real is only a confused belief, not a knowledge. Hence Candrakīrti clearly excludes it from the ontological categories of conventional reality, for the reason that intrinsic reality is a conceptual fiction fabricated by confused minds of the ordinary beings and that it is a conceptual construct thrust upon non-intrinsic entities ([MBh] 6.28 Dbu ma ‘a 255a). In addition Candrakīrti argues that if things were intrinsically real, even conventionally, as the Svātantrikas take them to be, in Candrakīrti’s view, things would exist by virtue of their intrinsic reality, at least conventionally. If this were the case then intrinsic reality would become the ultimate nature of things. That would be absurd.