 An inferential subject (pakṣa) occurs where there is no knowledge source that has positively established something in coördination with an absence of a desire to know. Thus, that is not an inferential subject if there is a knowledge source that has already positively established whatever and no desire to know (it by inference). … This is what it is to be an inferential subject (as a factor in the generation of inferential knowledge). Admittedly, this definition does not differentiate it from anything, since to be an inferential subject is a property with universal scope (anything can be an inferential subject, qualities as well as substances, universals as well as particulars, and so on). Nevertheless, the way the word ‛pakṣa’ is used has been explained.