evaṃ tarhi yadyālocanājñānād ūrdhvaṃ punaḥ punar yāvānadhigamas tasya prāṃānyaṃ tadālocanājñānena yadi kaścid ālocya paścāddakṣiṇī nimīlya jātyādidharmato vikalpayati tadāsyāpūrvādhigamo 'stīti tasyāpi pratyakṣatā syād ity āha yadi tvityādi /
If this is so, and if whatever cognition occurs repeatedly after the initial pre-cognitive awareness is valid, then if someone, after having pre-cognized [something] through that pre-cognitive awareness, closes his eyes and conceptualizes [it] through class-characteristics and other properties, since this would be an apprehension of something new, that too would be perception – [responding to this objection], he says "If however..." etc.