anyaḥ punar āha ṣaṇṇām astitvaṃ hi sadupalambhakapramāṇagamyatvam / gamyatvaṃ ca ṣaṭpadārthaviṣayaṃ vijñānaṃ, tasmin sati sadvyavahārapravartanāt /
Another [opponent] however says: "The existence of the six [categories] consists in their being cognizable by the means of cognition that apprehend existing things; and this cognizability is [in the form of] the cognition which has the six categories as its object, since it is only when this [cognition] exists that they are treated as 'existent'."