Though throughout the same the contrary be supposed true of tangible objects-not that to suppose that vulgar error was necessary for establishing the notion therein laid down, but because it was beside my purpose to examine and refute it in a discourse concerning VISION. So that in strict truth the ideas of sight, when we apprehend by them distance and things placed at a distance, do not suggest or mark out to us things ACTUALLY existing at a distance, but only admonish us what ideas of touch will be imprinted in our minds at such and such distances of time, and in consequence of such or such actions.
Ikusmenari dagozkion hautemangaiak ez direla adimendua gabe existitzen eta kanpoko gauzen ideia ere ez direla, tratatu hartan demostratua dago jada. Nahiz eta beronetan zehar suposatutzat jo zen kontrakoa dela egia objektu ukigarriei buruz, ez zen izan errore arrunta beharrezko zela suposatzen zelako han defendatzen zen nozioa zutik uzteko, nire asmotik at zegoelako baizik ikusmenari buruzko argudiaketa batean hura aztertzea eta errefusatzea.