[These two general maxims, amounting to no more, in short, but this, that THE SAME IS THE SAME, and THE SAME IS NOT DIFFERENT, are truths known in more particular instances, as well as in those general maxims; and known also in particular instances, before these general maxims are ever thought on; and draw all their force from the discernment of the mind employed about particular ideas.
Bi maxima orokor hauek, labur esanda hauexetara biltzen direnak, alegia, gauza bera gauza bera da eta gauza bera ez da ezberdina, kasu partikularretan ere ezagutzen dira, maxima orokor horietan bezalaxe, eta maxima orokor horietaz inoiz pentsatu baino lehenago dira ezagutuak gauza partikularretan, euren indar guztia gogamenak ideia partikularrez dihardunean duen bereizmenean datzalarik.