api ca gṛhābhāvaḥ pakṣadharmatvena kalpyamānaḥ kadācijjīvato devadattasya yo gṛhābhāvaḥ sa kalpyate, sāmānyena veti pakṣadvayam
Moreover, if absence in the house were to be assumed as a property of the subject [pakṣadharma], it could only be assumed in two ways: either as the absence of the living Devadatta in the house, or as absence in the house in general.