tatra yadacetanaṃ tadadhiṣṭhātāramantareṇa na svakāryamārabhata ityādau prayoge sādhyaviparyaye hetor bādhakapramāṇābhāvāt saṃdigdhavipakṣavyāvṛttikatayā hetor anaikāntikateti bhāvaḥ /
In [the case of] those arguments [which state] "What is insentient cannot initiate its effects without a controller," etc., because there is no valid means of cognition refuting the presence of the reason in the opposite of what is to be proved, due to the doubtful exclusion from the counter-example, the reason is inconclusive – this is the meaning.