-We do not regard a thing as absent, by reason of the emotion wherewith we conceive it, but by reason of the body, being affected by another emotion excluding the existence of the said thing (II.
Gauza bat ez dugu kanpo bezala hartzen, hura irudikarazten digun afektuarengatik, baina bai gauza haren existentzia baztertzeko, Gorputza hunki duen beste afektu batengatik, (2. Zat., 17. Prop.