 The same line of reasoning will also apply to proposal (d), which claims that distinctness is a matter of possessing a property like separateness. If the pot is distinct from the cloth in virtue of possessing the property of cloth-separateness, and the cloth is distinct from the pot in virtue of possessing the property of pot-separateness, then we may ask what is it in virtue of which pot-separateness and cloth-separateness are distinct properties. This will launch us on a regress. In order to block it, we would have to accept that the relevant separateness-properties are not really distinct; so, the cloth and the pot will turn out to be identical. That’s exactly what Śrīharṣa wants.