6. Concerning words, also, it is further to be considered: First, that they being immediately the signs of men's ideas, and by that means the instruments whereby men communicate their conceptions, and express to one another those thoughts and imaginations they have within their own breasts; there comes, by constant use, to be such a connexion between certain sounds and the ideas they stand for, that the names heard, almost as readily excite certain ideas as if the objects themselves, which are apt to produce them, did actually affect the senses.
6. Hitzei buruz, beste hauek ere aintzat hartu behar dira: Lehenik, hitzak gizakien ideien arartegabeko zeinuak eta, beraz, gizakiek beren iritziak komunikatzeko eta beren barruan dituzten pentsamendu eta irudikapenak elkarri adierazteko tresna direnez gero, erabiliaren erabiliaz soinuen eta eurok ordezkatzen dituzten ideien artean hain lotura handia sortzen da, non hitza entzun eta ia berehala pizten dituzten zenbait ideia, ideiok sortzeko gai diren objektuak sentimenei eragiten hantxe baleude bezala.