For, these several appearances being designed to be the mark whereby we are to know and distinguish things which we have to do with, our ideas do as well serve us to that purpose, and are as real distinguishing characters, whether they be only CONSTANT EFFECTS, or else EXACT RESEMBLANCES of something in the things themselves: the reality lying in that steady correspondence they have with the distinct constitutions of real beings.
Zeren, agerpen horiek gurekin zerikusia duten gauzak ezagutu eta bereizteko seinaleak izateko diseinatuak direlarik, gure ideiek xede horretarako ere balio digute eta ezaugarri egiatan bereizgarriak bezalakoak dira, direla efektu iraunkorrak, edo direla gauzetan euretan dagoen zerbaiten antzekotasun zehatzak, zeren errealitatea agerpen horiek izaki errealen osaera ezberdinekin duten egokitzapenean baitatza.