 The main criticism addressed by advocates of the “passive” model to the “directly active” model is that it attributes to perception an operation that is restricted to conceptual cognitions; in their view indeed, “elimination of superimpositions” amounts exclusively to the “exclusion of what is other,” the mode of operation of conceptual cognitions. Proponents of the “directly active” model are not, however, guilty of attributing to perception a conceptual operation. It is thus, rather, their new conception of “elimination of superimpositions” that is at stake here, for which the more traditionally oriented proponents of the “passive” model do not see a grounding in Dharmakīrti’s system.