tathā hi śabdasya tadviṣayajñānajanakatvam eva tadvācakatvam ucyate nānyatnaca yadvijñānaṃ yadākāraśūnyaṃ tat tadviṣayaṃ yuktam atiprasaṅgāt /
For indeed, when a word is said to be denotative of something, it means only that it generates knowledge of that object, nothing else; and a cognition that is devoid of the form of something cannot properly be [said to be] about that object, due to overextension.