  Here, the locus of the inference is a dyad, the smallest composite entity. The reason is “being an effect” (kāryatva), and the inferred property is “having a maker” (kartṛ-janyatva). The Manual of Reason carefully defines what it means by a ‘maker’: a thing which is non-inferentially aware of the inherent or material cause of the thing to be made, has a desire to make it, and acts accordingly. In this sense, the potter, but not the potter’s wheel or the clay or any other causally relevant feature, is the maker of the pot, for it is the potter who sees the clay (= material cause of the pot), desires to make a pot, and acts accordingly by using the wheel and stick.