They want not their reasons who think there are, and that each fixed star would answer the idea the name sun stands for, to one who was placed in a due distance: which, by the way, may show us how much the sorts, or, if you please, GENERA and SPECIES of things (for those Latin terms signify to me no more than the English word sort) depend on such collections of ideas as men have made, and not on the real nature of things; since it is not impossible but that, in propriety of speech, that might be a sun to one which is a star to another.
Eta batzuk, ez arrazoirik gabe, uste dute izar adina eguzki egon dagoela eta distantzia egokira kokaturiko edonorentzat izar finko orok eguzki hitzak adierazitako ideiari erantzunen liokeela, honek, aldi berean, erakusten digularik gauzen mota, edo nahiago izanez gero, genera eta espezies (latinezko hitz horiek, nire iritzirako, gure motak besterik ez baitituzte adierazten) zenbateraino dauden gizakiek egindako ideia bilduma horien menpe, eta ez gauzen izaera errealaren menpe, ez baita ezinezko, zehazki hitz eginda, batentzat izarra dena beste batentzat eguzkia izatea.