yadyapi vastusthityā śuklādīnāṃ madhurādibhedatvam asti / tathāpi śabdasya sākṣādabhihitārthagatasyaiva bhedasyākṣepasāmarthyaṃ na
Although in reality white and other [qualities] are varieties of non-sweet and so forth, nevertheless the word has the power to indicate only the varieties of what it directly denotes, not [the varieties] of what is denoted through something else.