tataś cānumānasya tadābhāsaśūnyasyāpi nāntarīyakārthadarśanabalenotpatteḥ pāramparyeṇa vastuni pratibandhāt prāmāṇyam ity avaśyaṃ tatrāvinābhāvaniścayo 'pekṣaṇīyaḥ.
Therefore, even though inference is devoid of the appearance [of its object], because it arises through the force of perceiving invariably connected things [and] is thus indirectly bound to the real object, [its] validity [depends on this, and] thus certainty about the invariable connection is necessarily required in this case.