yadetad anantaroktamavācyam tattvānyatvādyanirdeśyaṃ sāmānyamuktam, tadvikalpasyātmeti yadyasmātprakīrtitam pratipāditam anyāpohe /
That which has just been stated as inexpressible – that is, the universal which cannot be specified as being either identical or different [with particulars] and so forth – has been declared to be the very nature of conceptual thought, because this has been established in the section on exclusion [apoha].