apica tadanyavastuni vijñānaṃ yadi niścitaṃ bhavedevaṃ pratiyogino 'bhāvaṃ sādhayatītyevam avaśyābhyupagantavyam /
Moreover, if the cognition of a thing other than that were [to be] definite, then it must necessarily be accepted that it proves the absence of [its] counter-correlate.