It is true, as I have said, they sometimes serve in argumentation to stop a wrangler's mouth, by showing the absurdity of what he saith, [and by exposing him to the shame of contradicting what all the world knows, and he himself cannot but own to be true.] But it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth, and I would fain know what truths these two propositions are able to teach, and by their influence make us know which we did not know before, or could not know without them.
Arrazoi dezagun ahalik ongien proposizio bi horietatik hasita, eta ikusiko dugu identitateari buruzko predikatuak baino ez direla eta eragina ere, eraginik badaukate, horrexen ingurukoa baino ez dela.