tadeva sāmānyaṃ vastubhūtaṃ śabdavācyaṃ bhaviṣyatītyapohakalpanā nirarthakaiveti bhāvaḥ
[In that case,] that very [similarity] would be the real universal denoted by the word, and thus the postulation of apoha would be entirely pointless - this is the meaning.