For it is evident we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any other general signs.
Izan ere, begi-bistakoa da ezin dugula aurkitu abereengan lorratzik ere, ideia unibertsalak adierazteko zeinu orokorrak erabiltzen dituztela erakutsiko digunik eta, horregatik, badugu arrazoirik pentsatzeko ez dutela abstraitzeko edo ideia orokorrak egiteko ahalmenik, ez baitute hitzik edo bestelako zeinu orokorrik erabiltzen.