anyathā hi yatsvato na siddhas tasya ghaṭādivajjaḍarūpatayā jñānatvam eva hīyeteti bādhakaṃ pramāṇam
For otherwise, that which is not self-established would, like a pot and such things, be of an unconscious nature and thus would lose its very nature of being a cognition - this is a countervailing argument.