anupalabdhiḥf. Non-recognition, non-perception (pratyakṣādyabhāva); nāsti ghaṭo'nupalabdheḥ the knowledge of ghaṭābhāva is possible because the pratiyogī or counter-entity is not found with the non-entity or abhāva (that is, there being no upalabdhi or knowledge of the ghaṭa); one of the instruments of knowledge according to the Mīmāṃsakas, but not according to the Naiyāyikas. Comp.—samaḥ a fallacy, trying to establish a fact (say, the eternity of sound) from the impossibility of seeing the nonperception of it.