Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 2.1.11

‘So far only reasoning goes and no farther.’ No such limit can be assigned to reasoning by any authority; con* sequently when one position is advanced, it is possible to make inferences to the contrary also. But this view cannot be held. For, if that should be the fact, the release which is a fact by settled authorities, the contrary being possibly inferred, would come to be no fact. Wherefore things are to be admitted only so far as they are known to be facts by authori- ties, and nothing further (nothing else should be surmis- ed). So it is said in the Vamana Purana, “ Whatever is settled to be by authorities, is to be accepted and not to be abandoned. For in the absence of authority (settled means of proof) it would be impossible to prove or disprove anything.