nahi dṛṣṭe 'nupapannaṃ nāmetyāśaṅkyāha nivṛttāvasya bhāvo 'pi dṛṣṭa iti /
[Anticipating the objection] "surely there can be nothing wrong in what is actually seen," [the text] states that even in [inference's] absence, [the thing's] existence is observed.