nahi tatrābhāvaviṣayīkaraṇāt pratyakṣam abhāvaṃ sādhayatītyucyate / kiṃ tarhi ekajñānasaṃsargayogyayor arthayor anyatarasyaiva yā siddhiḥ sāparasyābhāvasiddhir iti kṛtvā
For it is not said there that perception proves non-existence because non-existence is made its object; rather, [it is said that] when two things are capable of being associated in a single cognition, the establishment of just one [of them] amounts to establishing the non-existence of the other