atha satyapi svalakṣaṇabhede yādṛśe lakṣaṇabhede yādṛśo loke bhedābhedavyavahāraḥ prasidhaḥ ekānekapratyavamarśahetutvena tādṛśau buddhibhedābhedāvupādīyete
Even though there is difference in specific characteristics, just as in common usage things are considered different or non-different based on certain characteristics, in the same way the difference and non-difference of cognitions are accepted as the cause for conceiving [things as] one or many.