7. Before a man makes any proposition, he is supposed to understand the terms he uses in it, or else he talks like a parrot, only making a noise by imitation, and framing certain sounds, which he has learnt of others; but not as a rational creature, using them for signs of ideas which he has in his mind.
7. Gizaki batek proposizioa egin aurretik proposizio horretan erabilitako terminoak ulertzen dituela suposatzen da, edo bestela loroa bailitzan mintzo da, norbait imitatuz zarata atera eta inorengandik ikasitako soinuak eratuz, baina ez izaki arrazoidun gisa hitzak gogamenean dituen ideien zeinutzat erabiliz.