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Samantabhadra-Bharati
[Canto 7]
The elimination of conventional usage is established. Just as from the word 'jiva' (living being) in the sentence 'one should not kill a jiva', the meaning of jiva arises as a reflection, similarly from the word 'jiva' denoting the cognitive entity, the meaning of cognition (buddhi) arises as a reflection, and from the word-meaning 'jiva', the reflection of the word itself is cognized. Since three types of cognition arise from a word, the three designations (samjna) of buddhi (cognition) etc. each have three meanings, due to which there is no scope for the defect of irregularity in the cause of designation (sanjnatva-hetu).
Refutation of the doubt of the Vijnanavadin (Yogacara Buddhist)
The pramanas (means of valid knowledge) of the speaker, listener, and knower are distinct. In delusion alone, the pramanas and the pramana-defective (pramabhrantau) are external to each other. [86]
(If a Vijnanavadin Buddhist were to argue that your reasoning for the cause of designation is not established with respect to the Vijnanavadin view, since there is no separate existence of designation apart from cognition, and the example of 'hetu-sabdavat' is also incomplete, as there is absence of another hetu-word distinct from the cognition of the hetu-word form, then, in order to address the doubt of such opponents, Acarya Swami Samantabhadra says:)
The cognition that arises in the manifestation of designation (samjna) - whether it is considered as the hetu (reason) or not - is not defective like the cognition of a dream-form, in which there is the cognition of the word-form but the absence of the external object.