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I understood the doctrine as being that conditioned things are caused:
For example:
What I said above about "conditioned" things is generally true of "put-together things" or "compound things" -- everything that's made (or compounded) of several things put together will eventually come apart.
I'm not sure about "reasons" -- perhaps reasons are man-made or artificial. For example the question "Why did the apple fall from the tree?" has several possible explanations -- maybe "reasons" can be called empty, like "things" are.
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Saṅkhāra means cause of effects. This is conditioner aggregate of dependent origination.
Saṅkhata means effect of causes. This is conditioned aggregate of dependent origination.
Because saṅkhāra of saṅkhata, have to be saṅkhata of the other saṅkhāra.
So, nothing is no condition, except nibbāna. And that everything, except nibbāna, must be changed (jāti, jarā, and maraṇa) by it's multi-conditioners.