1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary

Hopkins' Translations: correct assumption depending upon a pseudo/quasi/counterfeit reason
Sanskrit: nimittābhāsa-manasikāra

Comment: This is one of the three divisions of correct assumption (yid dpyod): correct assumption lacking a reason (rgyu mtshan med pa'i yid dpyod); correct assumption depending upon a counterfeit reason (rgyu mtshan ltar snang la brten pa'i yid dpyod); and correct assumption in which the reason is not ascertained (rgyu mtshan ma nges pa'i yid dpyod). There is also a division of correct assumptions into five: correct assumption whose reason is not established (rgyu mtshan ma grub pa'i yid dpyod); correct assumption contradictory with a reason (rgyu mtshan dang 'gal ba'i yid dpyod); correct assumption for which one has a reason but has not ascertained it (rgyu mtshan yod kyang gtan la ma phebs pa'i yid dpyod); correct assumption. For instances of each of the five, see the individual entries. do the fifth, check the order and the translations

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