Ambiguity, determination of the faults and merits of premises and conclusions, weighing the respective strength or weakness of those faults and merits, establishment of the conclusion, and the element of persuasiveness or otherwise that belongs to the conclusion thus arrived at,-these five characteristics belonging to the sense-form the authoritativeness of what is said.
सौक्षम्यं सांख्यक्रमौ चोभौ निर्णयः सप्रयोजनः। पञ्झैतान्यर्थजातानि वाक्यमित्युच्यते नृप।॥