For, our senses being able to observe a likeness or unlikeness of sensible qualities in two different external objects, we forwardly enough conclude the production of any sensible quality in any subject to be an effect of bare power, and not the communication of any quality which was really in the efficient, when we find no such sensible quality in the thing that produced it.
Izan ere, gure sentimenek kanpoko objektu ezberdin biren koalitate sentigarrien artean dagoen antzekotasuna edo antzekotasunik ezean erreparatzeko gai izanik, nahikoa erraz atera behar dugu ondorio moduan subjektu batean koalitate sentigarriren bat sortzea ahalmen hutsaren ondorio dela eta ez arazlearengan egiazki zegoen koalitate baten transmisioa, koalitate sentigarri hori berori sortarazi zuen gauzan aurkitzen ez dugunean.