The first of which is, that they could never have the use of speech, nor of other signes in framing it, as we have, to declare our thoughts to others: for we may well conceive, that a Machine may be so made, that it may utter words, and even some proper to the corporal actions, which may cause some change in its organs; as if we touch it in some part, and it should ask what we would say; or so as it might cry out that one hurts it, and the like: but not that they can diversifie them to answer sensibly to all what shall be spoken in its presence, as the dullest men may do.
lehena da ezingo luketela sekula ez hitzik ez beste zeinurik erabili eurak konbinatuz, guk besteei gure pentsamenduak adierazteko egiten dugun legez. Bururagarria da egin dadila makina bat hitzak ebakitzeko gaitasunaz, edo baten batzuk ebaki ditzala bere organoetan aldaketaren bat eragiten duten ekintza dela eta (hala nola, lekuren batean ukitzen bazaio zer esan nahi zaion galdegin dezala, eta beste batean ukitzen zaionean min hartu izan balu bezala oihuka dezala, eta antzerakoak);