So that they have not been philosophers or logicians, or such who have troubled themselves about forms and essences, that have made the general names that are in use amongst the several nations of men: but those more or less comprehensive terms have, for the most part, in all languages, received their birth and signification from ignorant and illiterate people, who sorted and denominated things by those sensible qualities they found in them; thereby to signify them, when absent, to others, whether they had an occasion to mention a sort or a particular thing.
Hartara, ez dira izan formen eta esentzien inguruan arduratuta ibili diren filosofoak, logikariak edo horrelako jendea gizakien nazio ezberdinetan erabiltzen diren izen orokorrak egin dituztenak; aitzitik, termino gutxi-asko zabal horiek, hizkuntza guztietan, gehienbat jende ezjakin eta eskola gabeak sortu ditu eta esanahia eman die, beroriek izan direlarik gauzak motaka sailkatu eta izendatu dituztenak euretan aurkitu dituzten koalitate sentigarrien bidez, gauza horiek bertan ez daudenean besteei adierazteko, hala espezie bat nola gauza partikular bat aipatu behar den guztian.