Would we accustom ourselves to separate our contemplations and reasonings from words, we might in a great measure remedy this inconvenience within our own thoughts: but yet it would still disturb us in our discourse with others, as long as we retained the opinion, that SPECIES and their ESSENCES were anything else but our abstract ideas (such as they are) with names annexed to them, to be the signs of them.
hala ere, traba horrek hantxe iraunen luke besteekin ditugun solasaldietan, espezieak eta euren esentziak izatez direna, hau da, ideien zeinu izateko izenak erantsita dauzkaten gure ideia abstraktuak barik, beste zerbait diren iritziari eusten segituz gero.