16. Upon this ground it is that I am bold to think that morality is capable of demonstration, as well as mathematics: since the precise real essence of the things moral words stand for may be perfectly known, and so the congruity and incongruity of the things themselves be certainly discovered; in which consists perfect knowledge.
16. Oinarri honetatik ausartzen naiz esatera morala frogagarria dela, matematika bezala, moraleko hitzak ordezkatzen dituzten gauzen esentzia erreal zehatzak bete-betean ezagut daitezkeenez eta, horretara, gauzen kongruentzia edo inkongruentzia ziurtasunez aurki daitekeenez gero, honexetan datzalarik ezagutza perfektua.