21. But however preposterous and absurd it be to make our names stand for ideas we have not, or (which is all one) essences that we know not, it being in effect to make our words the signs of nothing; yet it is evident to any one who ever so little reflects on the use men make of their words, that there is nothing more familiar.
21. Baina ezin absurduagoa izanik ere guk izenak ez ditugun ideiak edo, gauza bera dena, ezagutzen ez ditugun esentziak ordezkatzen ipintzea, hau benetan ere gure ideiak ezerezaren zeinu bihurtzea delarik, hala ere, gizakiak hitzak nola erabiltzen dituen apurtxo bat hausnartzen duen ororentzat bistakoa da ez dagoela ezer ere hori baino arruntagorik.