Sāṃkhya Kārikā verse 6

sāmānyataḥ tu dṛṣṭāt-atīndriyāṇāṃ pratītiḥ anumānāt | tasmāt-api ca-asiddhaṃ parokṣam-āpta-āgamāt-siddham ||

sāmānya - general, generic, not specific, alike, similartu - moreover; butdṛṣṭa - seen, looked at, beheld, perceived, viewed, observed, noticed; visible, apparent, observable; considered, regarded; treated of; appearing, manifested; occurring, found; experienced, suffered, endured; seen in the mind, devised, imagined, learned,atīndriya - Beyond the cognizance (reach) of the sensespratīti - conviction, settled beliefanumāna - inference; the act of inferring or drawing a conclusiontasmāt - from that, on that account, thereforeapi - even, also, although; very; something more; moreoverca - andasiddha - not existing or not having taken effect; imperfect, incomplete, unaccomplished, uneffectedparīkṣā - inspection, investigation, examinationāpta - a credible or authoritative personāgama - testimony; anything handed down and fixed by traditionsiddha - accomplished one; admitted to be true or right, established, settled, proved; a kind of medicinal plant or root
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Commentaries and Reflections

Commentary by Paul Harvey:

(What about the supersensible?)
But, knowledge of what is beyond the range of the senses is from inference based on generalised correlation; and knowledge not attainable even by that is attained though the eyes of another or authentic texts.

“Knowledge of what is beyond the range of the senses
is from inference based on generalised correlation;
and knowledge not attainable even by that is attained
though the eyes of another or authentic texts.”