Establishment of Brahman 3.97

3.97

tadanusāriṇyevaiṣā dṛśyate loke /
na khalu pramitanaṣṭaṃ ‘sat'ityupacarati lokaḥ /
kiṃ ca pramite 'rthe sadasattve jijñāseranna punarlaukikāḥ, siddhatvātpramāṇayogamātrasya tallakṣaṇatvācca sattvasya /

Indeed, this [usage] is observed in the world to follow precisely that [difference].
For the world certainly does not treat as 'existent' that which was cognized and then destroyed.
Moreover, once an object was cognized, ordinary people would not desire to know further about its existence or nonexistence, because mere relation to a means of valid cognition has already been established and existence is defined by that.