In all these cases, we may observe, that the animal infers some fact beyond what immediately strikes his senses; and that this inference is altogether founded on past experience, while the creature expects from the present object the same consequences, which it has always found in its observation to result from similar objects.
Kasu guzti hauetan hauteman dezakegu bere zentzuak zuzenki kolpatzen dituen halako zerbait inferitzen duela animaliak, eta inferentzia hau aurretiko esperientzian oinarritua duela erabat, izaki honek bere behaketan beste antzeko objektuetatik beti gertatzen ikusi dituen ondorio berdinak direlarik oraingo objektu honetatik ere espero dituenak.