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Words and thoughts are like a raft we might use to cross a river. We must depend on the raft since it is all we have and can indeed do the job. However, once across the river, the raft is not the destination but must be dropped.

Objects in the world we deal with are indeed the referents of terms and conceptuality but not by way of their own being or from their own side. For example, your shoes may appear to you to be the basis of the term "shoes" but they are not. You impute the term "shoes" onto them. There is nothing inherent to the shoes that makes them require/deserve the term "shoes" or even the thought "nice shoes".

Realization that objects are absent by way of their own condition of being the referents of terms and conceptuality is one avenue to the realization of emptiness.

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