17. If we inquire into what the most accurate philosophers declare themselves to mean by MATERIAL SUBSTANCE, we shall find them acknowledge they have no other meaning annexed to those sounds but the idea of BEING IN GENERAL, together WITH THE RELATIVE NOTION OF ITS SUPPORTING ACCIDENTS. The general idea of Being appeareth to me the most abstract and incomprehensible of all other;
17. Filosoforik zehatzenek "substantzia materialtzat" zer ulertzen duten ikertzen badugu, zera aurkituko dugu, aitortzen dutela ez diela termino horiei orokorrean izakiaren ideiarena beste esangurarik ematen, akzidenteen euskarri izatearen nozioarekin batera.