1. ANOTHER occasion the mind often takes of comparing, is the very being of things, when, considering ANYTHING AS EXISTING AT ANY DETERMINED TIME AND PLACE, we compare it with ITSELF EXISTING AT ANOTHER TIME, and thereon form the ideas of IDENTITY and DIVERSITY. When we see anything to be in any place in any instant of time, we are sure (be it what it will) that it is that very thing, and not another which at that same time exists in another place, how like and undistinguishable soever it may be in all other respects:
1. Alderatzeko beste abagune bat gauzen izatea bera hartuz dauka gogamenak, gauza bat leku eta garai zehatz batean existitzen kontsideratuz, gauza hori berarekin baina beste garai batean existitzen alderatzen dugunean, hortik identitatearen eta ezberdintasunaren ideiak eratzen ditugularik.