For it being no more a contradiction that thinking should exist separate and independent from solidity, than it is a contradiction that solidity should exist separate and independent from thinking, they being both but simple ideas, independent one from another and having as clear and distinct ideas in us of thinking as of solidity, I know not why we may not as well allow a thinking thing without solidity, i.e. immaterial, to exist, as a solid thing without thinking, i.e. matter, to exist; especially since it is not harder to concieve how thinking should exist without matter, than how matter should think.
Izan ere, kontraesan handiagoa ez delarik pentsamendua solidotasunetik bereiz eta independente existitzea, solidotasuna pentsamendutik bereiz eta independente existitzea baino, biak ideia bakunak, bata bestetik independenteak direlarik, eta geure baitan pentsamenduari buruz solidotasunari buruz bezain ideia argi eta bereiziak ditugunez gero, ez dakit zergatik ezin dugun indar beraz onartu solidotasun gabeko gauza pentsatzaile bat, hots, inmateriala, existitzen dela eta, era berean, pentsamendu gabeko gauza solido bat, hots, materia existitzen dela, batez ere kontuan izanik ez dela zailago pentsamendua materiarik gabe nola existi daiteken bururatzea, materiak nola pentsa lezakeen baino.