This perceiving, active being is what I call MIND, SPIRIT, SOUL, or MYSELF. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, WHEREIN THEY EXIST, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived-for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.
Izaki hautemaile eginkor honixe deitzen diot "adimendua, izpiritua, arima edo ni neu". Hitz hauez ez dut neure ideia batik ere denotatzen, euretatik erabat ezberdina den zerbait baizik, non haiek existitzen diren, edo, berdina dena, zeinen bidez hautematen diren; zeren ideiaren existentzia hautemana izatean baitatza.