which, whatever be the external cause of it, when it comes to be taken notice of by our discerning faculty, it is by the mind looked on and considered there to be a real positive idea in the understanding, as much as any other whatsoever; though, perhaps, the cause of it be but a privation of the subject.
ideia hori, berori sortu duen kanpoko kausa edozein delarik ere, behin gure bereizmena hartaz ohartzen denean, gogamenak adimenean egiazko ideia positiboa dagoela ikusten du eta hartakotzat hartzen du, beste edozein ideia hartzen duen bezala, nahiz eta agian haren kausa subjektuaren gabezia bat besterik izan ez.