Intrinsic existence is the equivalent for the Prasaṅgika of really, ultimately existing, in the sense of existing from its own side, independent of the imputing, conceptualizing activity of the mind. In reading Madhyamika arguments against other schools, on causation, for example, it is crucial to bear in mind from this perspective that what is being attacked is causation between intrinsically or inherently existent objects. To see entities as empty is to see them as mental constructs, not existing from their own side and therefore in that respect like illusions and hallucinatory objects.29 Nagarjuna says, concerning the casual flow within which dharmas, with their svabhāvas, are said to occur according to various Abhidharma scholars: