apica yadi kriyāguṇavyapadeśābhāvo 'bhāvapratyayahetuḥ syāt tadā sattādiṣvapyabhāvapratyayaḥ prāptastatrāpi śaśaviṣāṇādivat kriyāguṇavyapadeśābhāvāviśeṣāt /
Moreover, if the absence of action, quality, and designation were the cause of the cognition of absence, then the cognition of absence would also apply to [universals like] "existence" etc., since in those too there is equally an absence of action, quality, and designation, just as in [fictitious things like] "hare's horns."