yadavasthāviśeṣanibandhaneyaṃ matirupavarṇitā tasyopalabdhilakṣaṇaprāptasyānyasyāmavasthāyām anupalambhe sati pratiṣedho vidhīyate na tu bhavat parikalpitasya saṃyogasya tasya saṃyogipadārthavivekena kvacid api buddhāv apratibhāsanāt /
The notion [under discussion] has been explained as being based upon a specific state [of things]; and when that [state], which should be perceptible, is not perceived in another state, then there is its denial [with regard to this latter state]; and what is denied is not the Conjunction that you assume, for the reason that such 'Conjunction' has never appeared in any cognition as separate from the things conjoined.