nāpi tamantareṇabhavatastatkāryatvaṃ yuktamatiprasaṅgādityato mithyātvadoṣayoḥ kāryakāraṇabhāvānupapattirahetuka [p.585] tvaprasaṅgasya mithyātvasyeti viparyaye bādhakaṃ pramāṇam iti nānaikāntikatā /
Neither would it be reasonable for something occurring without that [cause] to be its effect, as [this would lead to] an absurd consequence; therefore, the impossibility of a cause-effect relationship between defects and falsity, and the consequence that falsity would be without cause, constitute the valid means of knowledge that refutes the contrary [position]; hence [the reason] is not non-conclusive.