  A structured perception, of an object a as having a certain property f (e.g. seeing the thing in the corner as being a piece of rope), is called by the Naiyāyikas ‘qualificative’ (savikalpaka = saprakāraka), for it a perception of an object, the ‘qualificand’ (viśeṣya) as having a certain feature or ‘qualifier’ (prakāra; viseṣaṇa) (cf. TS 47). It is alleged by the Naiyāyikas that any piece of perceptual knowledge must be of this form, and further that most cases in which we claim just to be seeing an object (e.g. “I see the car”) are really cases of seeing something as a car. In a ‘qualificative’ perception, it is the qualificand which is in sensory connection with the perceiver. How then does the qualifier enter the picture? The Nyāya claim that: