Because the parts of such an idea not being perceived to be, as they are, inconsistent, the one side or other always perplexes, whatever consequences we draw from the other; as an idea of motion not passing on would perplex any one who should argue from such an idea, which is not better than an idea of motion at rest. And such another seems to me to be the idea of a space, or (which is the same thing) a number infinite, i. e. of a space or number which the mind actually has, and so views and terminates in;
Zeren, horrelako ideiaren atalak, izatez diren moduan inkontsistenteak direla hautematen ez denez, alde batak edo besteak txunditu egiten du, beste aldetik edozein ondorio aterata ere, aurrera egiten ez den higiduraren ideiak horrelako ideiaren bidez argudiatuko lukeen edonor txundituta utziko lukeen moduan, hau ez litzatekeelarik atsedenean dagoen higidura baino asko hobea.