athāpi syāt mā bhūd guṇānāṃ vyāpāro doṣābhāvaniścayāya, tathāpy aniścitād eva doṣābhāvāt prāmāṇyaniścayo bhaviṣyatīti.
One might argue: "Let it be that excellences have no operation in bringing about certainty regarding the absence of defects; even so, certainty regarding validity would follow from the [mere] uncertain absence of defects."