tathā hi yasya vandhyāsutādiśabdasya bāhyasutādikaṃ vastvanyavyāvṛttam apohāśrayo nāstyeva, tasya kimadhiṣṭhāno 'paho vācya ucyate, avaśyaṃ hi vastunādhiṣṭhānabhūtenāpohasya bhavitavyam, tasyānyāpoḍhapadārthāvyatirekāt
For such terms as "son of a barren woman," there exists no external entity like a son that could serve as the excluded contrary [and] basis for exclusion; so what could be the substrate of the apoha that is said to be denoted? For an apoha must necessarily have some entity as its substrate, since it is non-different from "what is excluded from others."