tena jātiman mātrapakṣe yo doṣa ukto bhavatā tadvato na bādhakaḥ śabdo 'svatantratvād iti sa vyāvṛttimanmātrapakṣe 'pi tulya iti darśitaṃ bhavati /
Thus, the objection that you raised against the view that [what is denoted is] merely something possessing a universal—namely that "the word cannot denote that which possesses [the universal] because it is not independent"—is shown to apply equally to the view that [what is denoted is] merely something possessing exclusion.