 In a slightly more more elaborate version, Gaṅgeśa puts forth two steps. First, desires and the like are proved to have a locus, like all qualities. In step two, self is proved to be that locus, a distinct substance, different from earth, water, tejas, and so on down the traditional list, by eliminative argument. Defeaters for the proposition that desire and the like belong to earth or any of the rest of the items on the ontological list consists of hypothetical reasoning such as the following. If desire were a property of earth (or water and so on), then like the color that exists in earthen things, it, too, would be perceived. Surveying pots and the like, we find that nothing material has desire, cognition, etc., outside of living bodies. He writes (2020: 803):