tena yaduktam ---"niṣedhamātraṃ naivehaṃ śābde jñāne 'vabhāsate, iti tadasaṃgatam, niṣedhamātrasya śabdārthatvānabhyupagamād iti bhāvaḥ /
Therefore what was stated—that "mere negation does not appear in verbal cognition"—is irrelevant, because mere negation is not accepted as being the denotation of words—this is the meaning.