US-P18.112ab ।US-P18.112cd ॥
In plain words
Suppose you say: it is the intellect alone that stands close to the witness. Even so, that closeness confers nothing. No one supposes a log of wood gains anything by lying nearby.
Close to the Sanskrit
If the view is that being in the proximity of the witness would belong to the intellect alone — there is no benefit produced by that, just as none is supposed in the case of a log of wood.