Note 241 — Chapter XI · THE AKSHAPÁDA (OR NYÁYA) DARŚANA.
Edward B. (Edward Byles) Cowell translation
As in the former case it would be clear that it is a subject for separate discussion; and in the latter you would be liable to the fault of áśrayásiddhi, a "baseless inference," since your subject (or minor term), being itself non-existent, cannot be the locus or subject of a negation (cf. Kusumáñjali, iii. 2). "Just as that subject from which a given attribute is excluded cannot be unreal, so neither can an unreal thing be the subject of a negation."