For, it is evident we observe no foot-steps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the FACULTY OF ABSTRACTING, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words or any other general signs."
Bistakoa baita ez dugula somatzen hauengan ideia unibertsaletarako zeinu orokorrez baliatzeko urratsik, horrexek garamatza uste izatera ez dutela ideia abstraktuak eraikitzeko edo "abstraitzeko" ahalmenik, ez baitira baliatzen berbaz ez beste ezein zeinu orokorrez.