 The Madhyamaka tradition eventually endorsed a version of the three nature theory, albeit with some significant differences from the Yogacara version. According to the Yogacara theory, while the fabricated nature is empty, the other-dependent and consummate natures are real. The imaginative constructions associated with the other-dependent nature—the karmic seeds in the repository consciousness—must have some aspect that is real, according to Yogacarins, lest there be nowhere for them to await their future actualization; and the ineffable reality associated with the consummate nature also must have some aspect that is real, for the sake of avoiding the error of annihilationism. Madhyamakins reject the Yogacarin reasoning as fallacious, preferring an epistemological rather than an ontological interpretation of the three natures. The challenge with the epistemological interpretation, however, is making sense of how (delusional) appearances are possible in the absence of anything real. 