it must necessarily follow that such self-evident truths must be first known which consist of ideas that are first in the mind. And the ideas first in the mind, it is evident, are those of particular things, from whence by slow degrees, the understanding proceeds to some few general ones;
Eta lehenbizi gogamenean dauden ideiak, bistan da, gauza partikularrenak dira, adimenak berauetatik jotzen baitu, mailaka poliki-poliki, ideia orokor gutxi batzuetara, eta ideia orokorrok sentimenen objektu arruntetatik hartuak izanik, gogamenean finkatzen dira berauek izendatzeko izen orokor eta guzti.