yathoktaṃ tenaiva sumatinā ---"sattādisāmānyasvabhāvānuviddha eva viśeṣaḥ sākṣāt kriyate nānyathā, tato viśiṣṭaviṣayatvam eva viśeṣyasya yuktaṃ rūpam, sāmānyaṃ punar aśeṣanirapekṣaṃ sākṣātkartuṃ śakyata ityaviruddhamasyāvikalpaviṣayatvam" iti /
As stated by that same Sumati: "The particular is directly apprehended only as permeated by the nature of universals such as 'being' and not otherwise; therefore it is only proper that what is qualified should have the form of being an object of qualified [cognition]; the universal, however, can be directly apprehended independently of all [particulars], and thus there is no contradiction in its being an object of non-conceptual [cognition]."