ādyārthaviṣayaṃ tāvannedaṃ śābdopamādikam / pratyakṣe 'ntargatiprāpter vaiphalyaṃ vā smṛter iva //
[With regard to] verbal cognition, analogical cognition and the rest, [they] cannot have a perceptible thing as [their] object, since [they would] either be subsumed under perception or become useless like memory.