Men often stay not warily to examine the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, which they are desirous or concerned to know; but, either incapable of such attention as is requisite in a long train of gradations, or impatient of delay, lightly cast their eyes on, or wholly pass by the proofs; and so, without making out the demonstration, determine of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, as it were by a view of them as they are at a distance, and take it to be the one or the other, as seems most likely to them upon such a loose survey.
Jendeak ez du izaten pazientziarik, sarritan, ezagutzeko gogoa edo interesa duen bi ideien arteko adostasuna edo desadostasuna aztertzen ahalegintzeko; aitzitik, dela halako arrazoinamendu katea luzeek eskatzen duten arreta jartzeko gai ez direlako, dela luzapenetan ibiltzeko pazientziarik ez daukatelako, azaleko begiratu batekin kontentatzen dira edota ez dute izaten arean ere frogen ardurarik; eta halaxe erabakitzen dute, frogapenik burutu gabe, bi ideien arteko adostasuna edo desadostasuna, ideion urruneko ikuspegiarekin aski bailuten; eta hain azaleko azterketaren ondoren egokien deritzotenaren arabera ebazten, zentzu batera zein bestera.