7. If therefore we will warily attend to the motions of the mind, and observe what course it usually takes in its way to knowledge, we shall I think find, that the mind having got an idea which it thinks it may have use of either in contemplation or discourse, the first thing it does is to abstract it, and then get a name to it; ans so lay it up in its storehouse, the memory, as containing the essence of a sort of things, of which that name is always to be the mark.
7. Horregatik, gogamenaren higidurak arretaz begiratu eta ezagutzarako normalean zein bide hartzen duen ikusten jartzen bagara, uste dut aurkituko dugula gogamenak kontenplazioan edo diskurtsoan erabil dezakeela uste duen ideia bat erdiesten duelarik, lehenbizi ideia hori abstraitu eta izen bat jartzen diola eta ideia bere biltegian, oroimenean, gordetzen duela espezie bateko gauzen esentzia barne hartuz, izen hori beti esentzia horren seinale izango delarik.