 One can identify, at the source of this typology of objects of cognition, the need to specify the scope of reliability for reliable cognitions, in view of problematic cases—an issue already dealt with by the Indian epistemologist Dharmottara. One such case is that of inference, which qualifies as a reliable cognition, but is strictly speaking “erroneous” due to its conceptual nature. Namely, the thought-content of an inferential cognition is a universal, which bears no correspondence whatsoever with extra-mental reality. Distinguishing between different types of objects allows making sense of this by considering inference to be erroneous with regard to its apprehended object (for those that admit that it has one), or just erroneous qua conceptual cognition (for those who do not admit that it has an apprehended object), but reliable with regard to its engaged object, a real particular. 