yadi jñānaṃ pramāṇam, tadā tasya meyabodhe prameyaparicchede svābhāvikī śaktiḥ arthaparicchedakatvāj jñānasya
If cognition [itself] is the pramāṇa, then it has an inherent capacity for the cognition of the cognizable [and] for the determination of what is to be cognized, because cognition has the nature of determining objects.