Could he not know that his body was bigger than his little finger, if his language were yet so imperfect that he had no such relative terms as whole and part? I ask, further, when he has got these names, how is he more certain that his body is a whole, and his little finger a part, than he was or might be certain before he learnt those terms, that his body was bigger than his little finger?
Areago galdetzen dut, izen horiek bereganatu ondoren nola jakin dezake bere gorputza osoa dela eta hatz txikia osagaia, termino horiek ikasi aurretik bere gorputza hatz txikia baino handiagoa zela zekien baino ziurtasun handiagoz?