48. The great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral consists in this, that the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear and determinate, the smallest distinction between them is immediately perceptible, and the same terms are still expressive of the same ideas, without ambiguity or variation.
48. Zientzia matematikoen alde on handia zientzia moralen ondoan honetan da, lehenengoen ideiak sentigarriak izatean, argiak eta zehatzak direla beti alegia, eta haien arteko alderik txikiena ere berehalaxe hautematen dela, eta termino berek beti ideia berak adierazten dituztela, anbiguotasun edo bariaziorik gabe.